Chromodoris africana Eliot, 1904

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 : 17

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Material examined. Ten specimens. UL-YT70, TO, 18 Nov. 2011, 30m, 68mm; MB28-00 4443, ZWH, 0 2 Feb. 2012, 18m, 50mm, collected by S. Bruck; MHN-YT132, ZWH, 0 5 Feb. 2012, 17m, 24mm, collected by P. Velho; MB28-004472, ZRP, 0 7 Feb. 2012, 2m, 35mm; MB28-004492, ZGWS, 20 Feb. 2012, 20m, 62mm; MB28-004554, ZGWS, 0 2 Jun. 2012, 20m, 62mm; MB28-004793, ZWH, 11 Jan. 2014, 17m, 25mm; ZMBN94234, ZRP, 0 3 Feb. 2014, 1m, 60mm; MB28-0 0 4970, ZY, 27 Feb. 2015, 60m, 70mm, collected by J. Wright; MB28-004971, ZY, 27 Feb. 2015, 60m, 62mm, collected by J. Wright.

Habitats. Subtropical tidal reefs, rocky reefs, wrecks and tropical coral reefs.

Occurrences. Ponta do Ouro, Zavora, Nuarro and Vamizi Island.

Geographic distribution. Indian Ocean. Gulf of Oman ( Fatemi & Attaran-Fariman 2015), Red Sea ( Yonow 1989; Debelius 1996), Tanzania (Eliot 1905; Rudman 1977), South Africa ( Gosliner 1987; King & Fraser 2014), Madagascar and Comoros Islands (Gosliner et al. 2008) and Mozambique ( King & Fraser 2014).

References

Debelius, H. (1996) Nudibranchs and Sea Snails. Indo-Pacific Field Guide. From the Red Sea to South Africa. Across to the West Coast of the Americas. IKAN-Unterwasserarchiv, Frankfurt, 321 pp.

Fatemi, Y. & Attaran-Fariman, G. (2015) Checklist of the opisthobranchs (Heterobranchia: Gastropoda) along the Iranian Coasts of the Gulf of Oman. Journal of Biodiversity Environmental Science, 6, 1 - 7.

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.

King, D. & Fraser, V. (2014) The Reef Guide. Fishes, corals, nudibranchs & other invertebrates. East & South Coasts of Southern Africa. Struik Nature, Cape Town, 360 pp.

Rudman, W. B. (1977) Chromodorid opisthobranch Mollusca from East Africa and the tropical West Pacific. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 61, 351 - 397. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1977. tb 01033. x

Yonow, N. (1989) Red Sea Opisthobranchia 2: the family Chromodorididae (Mollusca, Nudibranchia). Fauna of Saudi Arabia, 10, 290 - 309.

Figures

FIGURE 4. A, Chromodoris aspera (MB28-004952). B,Chromodoris africana (MB28-004554). C, Chromodoris cf. boucheti (MB28-004929). D, Chromodoris hamiltoni (MB28-004769). E, Chromodoris mandapamensis (MB28-004931). F, Chromodoris quadricolor (MB28-005040). G, Chromodoris strigata (MB28-004884). H, Chromodoris sp. 1 (MB28-004644). I, Chromodoris sp.2 (MB28-004845).J,Diversidoris crocea (MB28-005024).K–L, Doriprismaticacf. atromarginata(MB28- 004575 and MB28-004908, respectively).