Aplysia juliana Quoy and Gaimard, 1832

Araya, Juan Francisco, 2015, Current status of the non-indigenous molluscs in Chile, with the first record of Otala punctata (Müller, 1774) (Gastropoda: Helicidae) in the country and new records for Cornu aspersum (Müller, 1774) and Deroceras laeve (Müller, 1774), Journal of Natural History 49 (29), pp. 1731-1761 : 1738-1739

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2015.1006703
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4336631
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scientific name	Aplysia juliana Quoy and Gaimard, 1832
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Description

Marcus (1955).

Distribution

Circumtropical; eastern and western Atlantic ( Marcus 1955) as well as the Indian and Pacific Oceans ( Kay 1964), in shallow marine habitats. In Chile this species has been recorded in Iquique (20°11 ʹ S, 70°08 ʹ W), Antofagasta (23°38 ʹ S, 70°24 ʹ W) and Taltal (25°24 ʹ S, 70°29 ʹ W) ( Castilla et al. 2005). This species was found for the first time in Antofagasta in 1982 ( Tomicic 1985), associated with ENSO events.

Possible mechanism of introduction/Status

Associated with ENSO events/unestablished ( Castilla et al. 2005).

Remarks

This is a large herbivorous marine slug, feeding almost exclusively on the alga Ulva lactuca ( Frings and Frings 1965) . UA, SA.

References

Castilla JC, Uribe M, Bahamonde N, Clarke M, Desqueyroux-Faundez R, Kong I, Moyano H, Rozbaczylo N, Santelices B, Valdovinos C, Zavala P. 2005. Down under the southeastern Pacific: marine non-indigenous species in Chile. Biol Invasions. 7: 213 - 232.

Frings H, Frings C. 1965. Chemosensory bases of food-finding and feeding in Aplysia juliana (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia). Biol Bull. 128: 211 - 217.

Kay EA. 1964. The Aplysiidae of the Hawaiian Islands. Proc Malacological Soc London. 36: 173 - 189.

Marcus EBR. 1955. On the Anaspidae (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia) of the warm waters of the Western Atlantic. B Mar Sci. 22: 841 - 874.

Quoy JRC, Gaimard JD. 1832. Voyage de decouvertes de l' Astrolabe, execute par ordre du Roi, pendant les annees 1826 - 1827 - 1828 - 1829, sous le commandement de M. J. Dumont d' Urville. Zoologie. Paris, Tastu; 686 pp.

Tomicic J. 1985. Efectos del Fenomeno El Nino 1982 - 83 en las comunidades litorales de la Peninsula de Mejillones. Invest Pesq (Chile). 32: 209 - 213.