Hallaxa indecora (Bergh, 1905)

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

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1042.64474

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9CF986D8-6A47-4E17-9A67-245C78FB8AFD

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A029791A-73BE-566B-A598-B0132638DAD3

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scientific name

Hallaxa indecora (Bergh, 1905)
status

 

* Hallaxa indecora (Bergh, 1905) View in CoL Figure 9B View Figure 9

Material examined.

One specimen 8 mm, SRB; one specimen 8 mm, CB.

Ecology.

Among rubble and under dead fungiid coral skeletons in coral reef habitats. Occasionally near isolated unattached colonies of sponge in deeper soft sediment habitats. Associated with an unidentified pale/creamy white sponge. Depth 4-20 m.

Distribution.

Red Sea ( Yonow 2008) and across the Indo-Pacific including Australia ( Nimbs and Smith 2016), the Gulf Aden, the Philippines, Indonesia, Japan, New Caledonia, and American Samoa ( Gosliner et al. 2008). Here representing a first record for Thai waters.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Nudibranchia

Family

Actinocyclidae

Genus

Hallaxa