Geitodoris pusae (Er. Marcus, 1955 )

Delgado, Marlon, Freire, Fúlvio Aurélio de Morais, Meirelles, Carlos Augusto Oliveira de, Padula, Vinicius, Bahia, Juliana & Brandão, Simone Nunes, 2022, Sea slugs (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) from Rio Grande do Norte, Northeastern Brazil, Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 62, pp. 1-26 : 15

27. Geitodoris pusae (Er. Marcus, 1955) ( Fig. 3L )

Material examined: Praia de Pirambúzios, Nísia Floresta, 28.II.2009, one specimen, 14 mm (body length), leg. M. Delgado ( GEEFAA 338).

Description: Body flat and elliptical, with up to 60 mm in length, orange in color with small, brownish spots on the entire notum surface but irregularly distributed, and one medial, orange spot related to the visceral mass.Gills light colored with small, dark brown spots. Retractile, lamellate rhinophores dark orange on the basis and dark brown on the lamellae. Anteriorly, one pair of eyes covered by the notum, and one pair of small labia. Medially, notum with small, rounded tubercles variable in size. Posteriorly, six retractile, six-pinnated gill leaves around the anus. Foot narrower than notum.

Geographic distribution: Western Atlantic: Argentina, Costa Rica, CuraÇao, Jamaica, Martinique, Puerto Rico, USA, Brazil (Alagoas, Bahia, Ceará, Pará, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Norte – present study, São Paulo) (Er. Marcus, 1955 and Er. Marcus & Ev. Marcus, 1970, as D. pusae ; Domínguez et al., 2006; Padula et al., 2012; Alvim & Pimenta, 2013; Sales et al., 2013; Galvão-Filho et al., 2015).

Figures

Figure 3. Heterobranchsea slugsfrom Rio Grandedo Norte.(A) Phyllaplysiaengeli (6mm – GEEFAA342);(B)Berthela agassizii(11mm –MZSP 97047);(C) Berthella nebula (7 mm– GEEFAA 1307);(D)Berthella vialactea(14mm – GEEFAA 304);(E) Berthellinaignis (10 mm– GEEFAA 335);(F) Cadlina rumia(10mm – GEEFAA311); (G) Felimida clenchi (9 mm – MZSP 97070); (H) Felimare sp. (13 mm – GEEFAA 313); (I) Tyrinna evelinae (18 mm – GEEFAA 1305); (J) Diaulula greeleyi (20 mm – GEEFAA 259a); (K) Discodoris branneri (70 mm – MZSP 97063); (L) Geitodoris pusae (14 mm – GEEFAA 338); (M.1) Sclerodoris prea (33 mm – GEEFAA 1314); (M.2) Sclerodoris prea (35 mm – GEEFAA1314); (N) Taringa iemanja (25 mm – MZSP 97062);(O) Taringa telopia (18 mm – MZSP 97071).