Aplysia kurodai Baba, 1937

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/5D26A752-5D4F-5561-94C1-75558CC4C43F

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scientific name

Aplysia kurodai Baba, 1937
status

 

Aplysia kurodai Baba, 1937 View in CoL Figure 8E View Figure 8

Material examined.

Two specimens 60-81 mm, SN; one specimen 30 mm, MH.

Ecology.

In soft sediment habitats, occasionally found in aggregations, although more often observed as solitary. Depth 8-22 m.

Distribution.

Currently known only from China ( Guang-Yu and Tchang 1965), Korea ( Lee et al. 2014), and Japan ( Baba 1937). Documented from the Gulf of Thailand ( Mehrotra and Scott 2016).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Aplysiida

Family

Aplysiidae

Genus

Aplysia