Diaulula phoca

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Diaulula phoca
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Dorsal view of Diaulula phoca.
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Doridina
Superfamily: Doridoidea
Family: Discodorididae
Genus: Diaulula
Species:
D. phoca
Binomial name
Diaulula phoca
Synonyms

Discodoris phoca Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1967
Montereina phoca (Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1967)

Contents

Diaulula phoca is a species of sea slug or dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Discodorididae. [2]

Taxonomy

This species was originally described under the name Discodoris phoca by Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus and Ernst Gustav Gotthelf Marcus in 1967. [1] It is considered a member of Diaulula because of the presence of caryophyllidia. [3]

Distribution

Distribution of Diaulula phoca includes Florida, Honduras, Costa Rica, Brazil and Panama. [3]

The type locality is west side of the Key Biscayne island, Florida. [1] The holotype is stored in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. [1]

Description

The body is oval. [3] Mantle is rigid. [3] Dorsum is covered with small caryophyllidia. [3] Body, rhinophores, and gill are dark purplish brown with numerous small opaque white dots. [3] It is up to 55 mm long. [1]

Ecology

It feeds on sponges. [1]

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References

This article incorporates Creative Commons (CC-BY-4.0) text from the reference [3]

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Marcus Ev. & Marcus Er. (1967). "American opisthobranch mollusks". Studies in Tropical Oceanography 6: 1–256. pages 78-80, figures 99-101.
  2. ↑ Rosenberg, G. (2010). Diaulula phoca (Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1967). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=532733 on 2012-03-01
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Goodheart J. A., Ellingson R. A., Vital X. G., Galvão Filho H. C., McCarthy J. B., Medrano S. M., Bhave V. J., García-Méndez K., Jiménez L. M., López G. & Hoover C. A. (2016). "Identification guide to the heterobranch sea slugs (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from Bocas del Toro, Panama". Marine Biodiversity Records9(1): 56. doi : 10.1186/s41200-016-0048-z
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