Dermatobranchus albineus

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Dermatobranchus albineus
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Llandudno, South Africa
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Cladobranchia
Family: Arminidae
Genus: Dermatobranchus
Species:
D. albineus
Binomial name
Dermatobranchus albineus
Gosliner & Fahey, 2011 [1]

Dermatobranchus albineus, common name the white-ridged nudibranch, is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Arminidae. [2]

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Description

This species is small in size (up to 20 mm), with opaque white ridges along the body. The rhinophores (chemosensory tentacles) are small, oval-shaped, and feature longitudinal ridges. This is a pale-bodied nudibranch featuring raised, opaque white longitudinal ridges. [3]

Distribution

This species was described from Hottentots Huisie (Oudekraal), Atlantic coast, Cape Peninsula, Cape Province, South Africa 33°59.2407′S18°20.81224′E / 33.9873450°S 18.34687067°E / -33.9873450; 18.34687067 at 7 m depth. Multiple specimens from this locality and east as far as Algoa Bay, Port Elizabeth were included in the original description.

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References

  1. Gosliner T.M. & Fahey S.J. (2011) Previously undocumented diversity and abundance of cryptic species: a phylogenetic analysis of Indo-Pacific Arminidae Rafinesque, 1814 (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) with descriptions of 20 new species of Dermatobranchus. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 161: 245–356.
  2. Dermatobranchus albineus Gosliner & Fahey, 2011 . 30 October 2024. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species .
  3. Herbert, D.G., Jones, G.J. & Atkinson, L.J. (2018). Phylum Mollusca. In: Atkinson, L.J. and Sink, K.J. (eds) Field Guide to the Offshore Marine Invertebrates of South Africa. Pretoria: Malachite Marketing and Media. p. 289. doi:10.15493/SAEON.PUB.10000001. ISBN   978-1-86868-098-6 . Retrieved 26 October 2024.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) Creative Commons by-sa small.svg  This article incorporates textfrom this source, which is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.