Phyllidia ocellata 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 : 60

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scientific name

Phyllidia ocellata Cuvier, 1804
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Phyllidia ocellata Cuvier, 1804

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Material examined. Seven specimens. ZMBN117022, ZAR, 20 Feb. 2012, 32m, 25mm; MB28-005092, ZSC, 14 May 2012, 22m, 39mm; ZMBN117035, ZWH, 0 8 Mar. 2013, 15m, 13mm; MB28-004667, ZY, 26 Apr. 2013, 33m, 25mm; ZMBN117060, POA, 0 8 May 2014, 41m, 4–9mm; ZMBN117078, NKA, 13 Jun. 2014, 20m, 45mm; ZMBN105569, VPP, 23 May 2015, 34m, 44mm, collected by Y. Tibiriçá & M. Malaquias.

Habitats. Subtropical rocky reefs and tropical coral reefs.

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

Geographic distribution. Indo-west Pacific. Marshall Islands, Guam, Japan, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Australia (Gosliner et al. 2008), Indonesia ( Yonow 1996), India (Remakrishna et al. 2010), Thailand, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Oman ( Debelius 1996), Mauritius, Seychelles, Madagascar, Tanzania, South Africa (Gosliner et al. 2008) and Mozambique.

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.

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.

Mayes, B (2012) Cerberilla sp., Nudipixel, Pergentian, Malasya. Available from: http: // www. nudipixel. net / photo / 00041707 / (accessed 26 July 2017)

Yonow, N. (1996) Systematic revision of the family Phyllidiidae in the Indian Ocean province. 1. (Opisthobranchia: Nudibranchia: Doridoidea). Journal of Conchology, 35, 483 - 516.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Nudibranchia

Family

Phyllidiidae

Genus

Phyllidia