Aplysia cf. parvula Guilding

Yonow, Nathalie, Anderson, R. Charles & Buttress, Susan G., 2002, Opisthobranch molluscs from the Chagos Archipelago, Central Indian Ocean, Journal of Natural History 36 (7), pp. 831-882 : 837

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https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930110039161

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scientific name

Aplysia cf. parvula Guilding
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Aplysia cf. parvula Guilding View in CoL in MoÈrch, 1863

(®gures 2d, 3a, b)

Aplysia fasciata Poiret : Yonow, 1994a: 104, ®gure 4G.

Aplysia cf. parvula: Yonow, 2000: 94 View in CoL , ®gure 3, pl. 7.

Material. Chag96/18: three specimens approximately 10 mm; outer reef of Ile de la Passe, Salomon Atoll; 12 February 1996; at 19±20 m depth.

Description. Body dark brown, with grey margins to parapodia and grey tips to rhinophores and oral tentacles (®gure 2d). White stippling absent. Parapodia enlarged, upstanding and strongly undulated, originating separately anteriorly and meeting as a low rim on the tail. Rhinophores and oral tentacles large and erect.

The three preserved specimens are well relaxed; the rolled rhinophores and oral tentacles are visible, with black pigment remaining within the tubes. The eyes are visible on all specimens and there is dark brown pigment variably remaining as a dusty covering along the edge of the foot and its sole on all specimens, in wrinkles

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Aplysiida

Family

Aplysiidae

Genus

Aplysia

Loc

Aplysia cf. parvula Guilding

Yonow, Nathalie, Anderson, R. Charles & Buttress, Susan G. 2002
2002
Loc

Aplysia cf. parvula:

Yonow 2000: 94
2000
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