Asteronotus, Ehrenberg, 1831

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 : 46

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Asteronotus View in CoL sp.

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Material examined. Two specimens. MB28-004911, NKA, 13 Jun. 2014, 6m, 92mm; MB28-0 0 5043, NFA, 9m, 23 Aug. 2016, 9m, 150mm.

Habitats. Tropical coral reefs and areas with coral bommies and seagrass, often crawling on sand.

Occurrences. Nacala and Nuarro.

Geographic distribution. Western Indian Ocean. Tanzania ( Alfred 2011 as Dendrodoris sp.), Seychelles ( Debelius & Kuiter 2007 as Dendrodoris tuberculosa ( Quoy & Gaimard, 1832) and Mozambique.

Remarks. Both specimens were found crawling on the sand. This species bears lateral teeth with an elevated base giving a convex appearance ( Fig.15), which is typical of the genus ( Dayrat 2010).

References

Alfred, A. (2011) Dendrodoris sp., Nudipixel, Zanzibar, Tanzania. Available from: http: // www. nudipixel. net / photo / 00033149 / (accessed 28 July 2017)

Dayrat, B. (2010) A Monographic Revision of Basal Discodorid Sea Slugs (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Nudibranchia: Doridina). Proceeding of the California Academy of Sciencies, 61 (Sumplement 1), 1 - 403.

Debelius, H. & Kuiter, R. H. (2007) Nudibranchs of the world. IKAN-Unterwasserarchiv, Frankfurt, 260 pp.

Quoy, J. R. C. & Gaimard, J. P. (1832) Voyage de decouvertes de l'Astrolabe execute par ordre du Roi, pendant les annees 1826 - 1827 - 1828 - 1829, sous le commandement de M. J. Dumont d'Urville. Zoologie, Mollusca, 2, 1 - 686, pls. 1 - 26.

Figures

FIGURE 13. A, Thorunna australis (MB28-004823). B, Thorunna horologia (MB28-005006). C, Thorunna punicea (MB28- 004404).D, Verconia norba (MB28-004715). E. Verconia simplex (MB28-005013). F, Verconia sp. (MB28-005012). G, Aldisa cf. pikokai (MHN-YT1554). H, Aldisa fragaria (MB28-004395). I, Aldisa zavorensis (MB28-004398). J–K, Asteronotus cespitosus (ZMBN105161), dorsal and ventral view. L, Asteronotus sp.(MB28-004911).