Bulbaeolidia alba ( Risbec, 1928 )

Tibiriçá, Yara, Pola, Marta & Cervera, Juan Lucas, 2017, Astonishing diversity revealed: an annotated and illustrated inventory of Nudipleura (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) from Mozambique, Zootaxa 4359 (1), pp. 1-133 : 106-107

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scientific name	Bulbaeolidia alba ( Risbec, 1928 )
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Bulbaeolidia alba ( Risbec, 1928) View in CoL

( Figure 33 I –J View FIGURE 33 )

Material examined. Eleven specimens. MB28-004466 & MHN-YT186, ZRP, 0 7 Feb. 2012, 2m, 10mm and 4mm, respectively; MB28-004520, ZRP, 0 9 Mar. 2012, 2m, 3mm; MB28-004522, ZWH, 15 Mar. 2012, 18m, 4mm; MB28-004675, ZJS, 24 May 2013, 12m, 4mm; MB28-004735, ZRP, 0 8 Sep. 2013, 0.5m, 5mm; MB28-004744, ZRP, 0 9 Oct. 2013, 0.5m, 5mm; MB28-004758, 3 spcs. PAQ, 0 3, Dec. 2013, 1 m, 9–12mm; MB28-004934, ZRP, 10 Oct. 2014, 1m, 10mm; MB28-00 4940, ZRP, 26 Oct. 2014, 0.3m, 6mm; MB28-004998, ZRP, 0 6 May 2015, 0.3m, 6mm.

Habitats. Subtropical tidal reefs and on aquaculture nets in the tropics.

Occurrences. Zavora and Pemba.

Geographic distribution. Indo-west, central Pacific. French Polynesia (Boserelle et al. 2013), Hawaii, Midway Atoll (Gosliner et al. 2008), Guam ( Carlson & Hoff 2003), Japan (Nakano 2004), Philippines, Malaysia ( Carmona et al. 2013), New Caledonia ( Risbec 1928), Malasya ( Carmona et al. 2017b), Tanzania, Seychelles (Gosliner et al. 2008), South Africa ( Gosliner 1987) and Mozambique.

Remarks. Two morphotypes were found in Mozambique: (1) cream-white with an orange line surrounding the base of the rhinophores ( Fig. 33 I View FIGURE 33 ) and (2) white with an orange dorsal patch posterior to the rhinophores ( Fig. 33 J View FIGURE 33 ). Carmona et al. (2017) investigated several morphotypes from the Indo-Pacific with different orange patterns and found that they were variations of B. alba . Nevertheless, they enphasise that they did not have material from East Africa and that further investigation including specimens from this region was needed because peripherical regions such as Mozambique and South Africa are likely to have endemic species for this genus.

References

Carlson, C. & Hoff, P. J. (2003) The opisthobranchs of the Mariana Islands. Micronesica, 35, 271 - 293.

Carmona, L., Pola, M., Gosliner, T. M. & Cervera, J. L. (2013) A tale that morphology fails to tell: a molecular phylogeny of Aeolidiidae (Aeolidida, Nudibranchia, Gastropoda). PLoS One, 8 (5), e 63000. https: // doi. org / 10.1371 / journal. pone. 0063000

Carmona, L., Pola, M., Gosliner T. M. & Cervera, J. L. (2017 b) Integrative taxonomy and biogeography of the genus Bulbaeolidia (Nudbranchia, Aeolidida). Journal of Molluscan studies, 83, 440 - 450.

Gosliner, T. M. (1987) Nudibranchs of southern Africa: a guide to opisthobranch molluscs of southern Africa. Sea Challengers, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, 136 pp.

Risbec, J. (1928) Contribution a l'etude des nudibranches Neo-Caledoniens. These presentee a la faculte des sciences de l'Universite de Paris pour obtenir le grade de docteur es-sciences naturelles. Faune des Colonies Francaise, 2, 1 - 328, pls. 1 - 12.

Figures

FIGURE 33. A, Tenellia ornata (MB28-005014). B, Tenellia sibogae (MB28-004405). C, Tenellia sp. (MB28-004905). D, Unidentia angelvaldesi (MB28-004987). E, Anteaeolidiella cf. fijensis (MB28-004746). F–G, Baeolidia moebii (MNCN15.05/ 63447 and MB28-004756, respectively). H, Baeolidia variabilis (MB28-004739). I–J Bulbaeolidia alba (MB28-004466 and MB28-004744, respectively).K, Cerberilla affinis (ZMBN105582). L, Cerberilla africana(ZMBN105109).