Felimare acriba

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Felimare acriba
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Doridina
Superfamily: Doridoidea
Family: Chromodorididae
Genus: Felimare
Species:
F. acriba
Binomial name
Felimare acriba
Marcus & Marcus, 1967 [1]
Synonyms [2]

Hypselodoris acribaEr. Marcus & Ev. Marcus, 1967 (basionym) [3]

Contents

Felimare acriba is a species of colourful sea slug or dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chromodorididae. [2]

Distribution

This nudibranch is known only from the Caribbean.

Description

Felimare acriba has a blue body which is covered in a yellow-gold mesh pattern with a series of black spots towards the edges of the mantle. The very edge of the mantle is yellow, with a thin red line inside this, then a more diffuse area of pink to white The rhinophores are purple-blue and the deeply indented mantle and gills are a gold-brown colour. [4] The maximum recorded length is 60 mm. [5] [6] [7]

Habitat

Minimum recorded depth is 4 m. [5] Maximum recorded depth is 26 m. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ Marcus Er. & Marcus Ev. (1967). "American opisthobranch mollusks. Part 1, Tropical American opisthobranchs". Studies in Tropical Oceanography, Miami, 6(1-2): 1-137. Figs 1-150, Pl. 1, figs 1-9.
  2. 1 2 Bouchet, P. (2012). Felimare acriba. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2012-05-11
  3. ↑ Johnson R.F. & Gosliner T.M. (2012) Traditional taxonomic groupings mask evolutionary history: A molecular phylogeny and new classification of the chromodorid nudibranchs. PLoS ONE 7(4): e33479
  4. 1 2 Behrens, D.W., 2000 (October 23) Hypselodoris acriba Marcus & Marcus, 1967. [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
  5. 1 2 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.
  6. ↑ Ortea, J., Valdés, Á. & García-Gómez, J.C. (1996). Revisión de las especies atlánticas de la familia Chromodorididae (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) del grupo cromático azul. Avicennia suplemento 1: 1-165 page(s): 84
  7. ↑ Debelius, H. & Kuiter, R.H. (2007) Nudibranchs of the world. ConchBooks, Frankfurt, 360 pp. ISBN   978-3-939767-06-0 page(s): 109
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