Ceratosoma bicolor

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Ceratosoma bicolor
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Family: Chromodorididae
Genus: Ceratosoma
Species:
C. bicolor
Binomial name
Ceratosoma bicolor
Baba, 1949 [1]

Ceratosoma bicolor is a species of sea slug or dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chromodorididae. [2] It is possible that this species is a colour variation of Ceratosoma trilobatum [3]

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Distribution

This species was described from Japan. [4]

Description

Anatomically indistinguishable from Ceratosoma trilobatum but with a distinctive colour pattern. [4] [5] [6]

References

  1. ↑ Baba, K. (1949) Opisthobranchia of Sagami Bay collected by His Majesty The Emperor of Japan. Iwanami Shoyen, Tokyo. 194 pp., 50 pls.
  2. ↑ MolluscaBase (2018). Ceratosoma bicolor Baba, 1949. Accessed on 2019-01-30.
  3. ↑ Rudman W.B. (1988). The Chromodorididae (Opisthobranchia: Mollusca) of the Indo-West Pacific: the genus Ceratosoma J.E. Gray. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 93 (1): 133-185, page 137
  4. 1 2 Rudman, W.B., 2001 (August 20) Ceratosoma bicolor Baba, 1949. [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
  5. ↑ Debelius, H. & Kuiter, R.H. (2007) Nudibranchs of the world. ConchBooks, Frankfurt, 360 pp. ISBN   978-3-939767-06-0 page 99
  6. ↑ Kimoto, N., 2019. Ceratosoma bicolor Seaslug World, accessed, 2019-01-30.
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