Cyerce edmundsi T.E. Thompson, 1977

Moreno, Karina, Rico, Diane M., Middlebrooks, Michael, Medrano, Sabrina, Valdés, Ángel A. & Krug, Patrick J., 2024, A cryptic radiation of Caribbean sea slugs revealed by integrative analysis: Cyerce ‘ antillensis’ (Sacoglossa: Caliphyllidae) is six distinct species, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 200 (4), pp. 940-979 : 972-973

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https://doi.org/ 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad111

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11267583

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scientific name

Cyerce edmundsi T.E. Thompson, 1977
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Cyerce edmundsi T.E. Thompson, 1977 View in CoL

Cyerce edmundsi Thompson 1977: 136–137 View in CoL , figs 22i, j, 24d.

Type material

Holotype: Discovery Bay , Jamaica, Caribbean Sea ( NHMUK 19776 About NHMUK ), February 1976, 5–8 mm in length, not examined.

Range

Jamaica ( Thompson 1977).

Ecology

Diet unknown. Remarks

Thompson (1977) described C. edmundsi from the Caribbean as having ‘flattened, oval’ cerata containing branches of the digestive gland, with ‘pearl-like’ glands along the margin. Cyerce edmundsi was covered with ‘white pigment specks’, ‘white’ bifurcated rhinophores, and oral tentacles ( Thompson 1977). Radular tooth morphology was described as ‘elongated’ and ‘spoon-like’, with trifid and bifid denticles, and the penis lacked a stylet. No transverse groove across the foot was noted. The lack of a transverse groove ventrally along the foot, the presence of digestive gland tubules in the cerata, and the shape of the denticles along the tooth described for C. edmundsi indicate this specimen does not belong to Cyerce . Marcus (1982) and Hamatani (1994) suggested that C. edmundsi was a synonym of Mourgona germainae Marcus & Marcus, 1970 . A previous molecular study ( Händeler and Wägele 2007) included a specimen as Cyerce cf. edmundsi , but our phylogenetic analyses recovered this specimen within C. antillensis ( Fig. 2 View Figure 2 ).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Sacoglossa

Family

Hermaeidae

Genus

Cyerce

Loc

Cyerce edmundsi T.E. Thompson, 1977

Moreno, Karina, Rico, Diane M., Middlebrooks, Michael, Medrano, Sabrina, Valdés, Ángel A. & Krug, Patrick J. 2024
2024
Loc

Cyerce edmundsi Thompson 1977: 136–137

Thompson TE 1977: 137
1977
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