Pleurobranchus peronii Cuvier, 1804

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 : 12-13

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scientific name	Pleurobranchus peronii Cuvier, 1804
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Material examined. Three specimens. MHN-YT276, ZRP, 21 Feb. 2014, 2m, 12mm; MB28-0 0 4753, ZRS, 24m, 22mm; MB28-005042, 20 Aug. 2016,8m, 15mm.

Habitats. Subtropical tidal reefs and rocky reefs.

Occurrences. Zavora.

Geographic distribution. Indo-west Pacific. Hawaii (Gosliner et al. 2008; Goodheart et al. 2015), Japan, Korea, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Malaysia (Gosliner et al. 2008), Philippines ( Goodheart et al. 2015), India ( Apte 2009), Madagascar, Tanzania, South Africa (Gosliner et al. 2008; Goodheart et al. 2015) and Mozambique ( Macnae 1962).

Remarks. Found active at night, one specimen in association with the commensal cleaner shrimp Hyppolyte sp.

References

Apte, D. (2009) Opisthobranch fauna of Lakshadweep Islands, India, with 52 new record to lakshadweep and 40 new records to India: Part 1. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 106, 162 - 175.

Cuvier, G. L. (1804) Memoire sur la Phyllidie et sur le Pleurobranche, deux nouveaux genres de mollusques de l'ordre des gasteropodes, et voisins des patelles et des oscabrions, dont l'un est nu dont l'autre porte une coquille cachee. Annales du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 5, 266 - 276.

Goodheart, J., Camacho-Garcia, Y., Padula, V., Schrodl, M., Cervera, J. L., Gosliner, T. M. & Valdes, A. (2015) Systematics and biogeography of Pleurobranchus Cuvier, 1804, sea slugs (Heterobranchia: Nudipleura: Pleurobranchidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 174, 322 - 362. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / zoj. 12237

Macnae, W. (1962) Notaspidean opisthobranchiate molluscs from Southern Africa. Annals of the Natal Museum, 15, 167 - 181.

Figures

FIGURE 2. A, Berthella martensi (MB28-004607). B–D, Berthellina delicata species complex (MB28-005057, MB28- 004578, MB28-005060, respectively). E, Berthellina sp. (MB28-005016). F, Pleurobranchaea brockii (in situ). G, Pleurobranchus albiguttatus (MB28-004603). H–I, Pleurobranchus forskalii (MB28-004434 and MHN-YT1655, respectively). J, Pleurobranchus grandis (in situ). K–L, Pleurobranchus peronii (MHN-YT276 and MB28-005042, respectively).