Tambja amakusana Baba, 1987

Mehrotra, Rahul, A. Caballer Gutierrez, Manuel, M. Scott, Chad, Arnold, Spencer, Monchanin, Coline, Viyakarn, Voranop & Chavanich, Suchana, 2021, An updated inventory of sea slugs from Koh Tao, Thailand, with notes on their ecology and a dramatic biodiversity increase for Thai waters, ZooKeys 1042, pp. 73-188 : 73

Tambja amakusana Baba, 1987 Figure 16G

Material examined.

One specimen 6 mm, CP.

Ecology.

Among rocks and corals on offshore pinnacle sites.

Distribution.

Widespread in the Indo-Pacific including Mozambique ( Tibiriçá et al. 2017), Maldives ( Yonow 2012), Japan ( Baba 1987), Australia ( Marshall and Willan 1999), Papua New Guinea ( Pola et al. 2006), Vanuatu and Hawaii ( Gosliner et al. 2008). First documented from the Gulf of Thailand by Mehrotra and Scott (2016).

Figures

Figure 16. A Gymnodoris sp. 3 12 mm B Gymnodoris nigricolor 5 mm C Gymnodoris cf. nigricolor 6 mm D Gymnodoris sp. 4 9 mm E Plocamopherus tilesii 90 mm F Polycera sp. 12 mm G Tambja amakusana 6 mm (photograph by Richard Brinke) H Tambja pulcherrima 40 mm (photograph by Liam Kelly) I Tambja sp. 4 mm (photo by Kaitlyn Harris) J Thecacera sp. 6 mm K Anteaeolidiella sp. 15 mm L Aeolidiopsis harrietae 17 mm.