Eubranchus conicla

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Eubranchus conicla
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Cladobranchia
Superfamily: Fionoidea
Family: Eubranchidae
Genus: Eubranchus
Species:
E. conicla
Binomial name
Eubranchus conicla
(Er. Marcus, 1958) [1]
Synonyms [2] [3]

Capellinia coniclaEr. Marcus, 1958 (basionym)
Eubranchus coniclus(Er. Marcus, 1958) (misspelling)
Eubranchus convenientis Ortea & Caballer, 2002 [4]

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Eubranchus conicla is a species of sea slug or nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Eubranchidae.

Taxonomy

Eubranchus convenientis Ortea & Caballer, 2002 was described from Manzanillo, Limón, Costa Rica. [4] Eubranchus convenientis is considered as a synonym of Eubranchus conicla. [3]

Distribution

This species was described from Ubatuba and Ilhabela, São Paulo state, Brazil. [1] It has been reported from Florida, Honduras, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Jamaica, Barbados, Tobago, Brazil and Panama. [3]

Description

Body is elongate. [3] Rhinophores are smooth. [3] Oral tentacles are short. [3] Cerata are tuberculate, few in number, arranged in two simple rows. [3] Background color is translucent gray or brown with numerous white dots. [3] Rhinophores and oral tentacles are sometimes ringed with brown. [3] Cerata are white, sometimes with brown or green spots. [3] The maximum recorded body length is 4 mm. [3] [5]

Ecology

Minimum recorded depth is 0 m. [5] Maximum recorded depth is 3 m. [5] Found on Sargassum in Panama. [3]

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References

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

  1. 1 2 Marcus Er. (1958). "On western Atlantic opisthobranchiate gastropods." American Museum Novitates (1906): 1-82.
  2. ↑ Caballer, M.; Rosenberg, G. (2015). Eubranchus conicla Er. Marcus, 1958. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-12-27
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 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
  4. 1 2 Ortea J. & Caballer M. (2002). "Nuevos datos sobre el género Eubranchus Forbes, 1838 (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) en aguas templadas del Atlántico Oeste. New data about the genus Eubranchus Forbes, 1838 (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) in warm waters of West Atlantic." Avicennia15: 77-90 pages: 81, 83, 85, Plate 1 B, Figures 2, 3, 7.
  5. 1 2 3 Welch J. J. (2010). "The “Island Rule” and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". PLoS ONE 5(1): e8776. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008776.
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