Doriprismatica kyanomarginata

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Doriprismatica kyanomarginata
Doriprismatica kyanomarginata (10.3897-zookeys.770.26378) Plate 4.jpg
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Doridina
Superfamily: Doridoidea
Family: Chromodorididae
Genus: Doriprismatica
Species:
D. kyanomarginata
Binomial name
Doriprismatica kyanomarginata
Yonow, 2018 [1]

Doriprismatica kyanomarginata is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chromodorididae. [2]

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Distribution

This species was described from Egypt with additional material from The Creek, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. [1]

Description

Doriprismatica kyanomarginata is predominantly mottled light beige in colour. The mantle edge is extensively folded as in other Doriprismatica and Glossodoris species with coloured lines at the edge. There is a transition from beige to yellow, followed by a line which is pale blue and then an outer black line in this species. [1] [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Yonow N. (2018). Red Sea Opisthobranchia 5: new species and new records of chromodorids from the Red Sea (Heterobranchia, Nudibranchia, Chromodorididae). ZooKeys. 770: 9-42, page 13, pl. 1 fig. 4
  2. MolluscaBase (2018). Doriprismatica kyanomarginata Yonow, 2018. Accessed on 2019-01-08.
  3. Yonow N., 2008. Red Sea Sea Slugs. Pensoft Publications, Sofia/Moscow, 304 pp., page 189, lower left and mid lower right photographs, as Glossodoris cincta.