Felimare fontandraui

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Felimare fontandraui
Hypselodoris fontandraui (Pruvot-Fol, 1951) 2.jpg
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Doridina
Superfamily: Doridoidea
Family: Chromodorididae
Genus: Felimare
Species:
F. fontandraui
Binomial name
Felimare fontandraui
(Pruvot-Fol, 1951) [1]
Synonyms
  • Glossodoris fontandrauiPruvot-Fol, 1951 (original combination)
  • Hypselodoris fontandraui(Pruvot-Fol, 1951)

Felimare fontandraui is a species of colourful dorid nudibranch, a type of sea slug, in the family Chromodorididae. [2] [3]

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Distribution

This nudibranch is known from the Eastern Atlantic Ocean and the Western Mediterranean. [4]

Felimare fontandraui feeding on a sponge of the genus Dysidea Felimare fontandraui (Pruvot-Fol, 1951), Dysidea fragilis (Montagu, 1818).jpg
Felimare fontandraui feeding on a sponge of the genus Dysidea

Description

Felimare fontandraui typically has a blue to purple body with yellow lines running down its sides and a single yellow-cream line on its upper dorsum. The upper dorsum is also often marked with light blue streaks near the mantle edge. Its mantle is edged in orange and it has black-purple gills and rhinophores. There is considerable colour variation within this species. [5] [6]

This species can reach a total length of at least 30 mm and has been observed feeding on yellow sponges from the genus Dysidea . [4]

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References

  1. ↑ Pruvot-Fol A. (1951). Etudes des nudibranches de la Méditerranée 2. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 88: 1-80 page(s): 24-25, fig. 10; pl. 1 fig. 4-5, 26
  2. ↑ MolluscaBase (2018). Felimare fontandraui (Pruvot-Fol, 1951). Accessed on 2019-01-02
  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 Rudman, W.B., 2001 (October 5) Hypselodoris fontandraui (Pruvot-Fol, 1951). [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
  5. ↑ Ortea, J., Valdés, A. & García-Gómez, J.C. (1996) 'Revisión de las especies atlánticas de la familia Chromodorididae (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) de grupo cromático azul. (Review of the Atlantic species of the family Chromodorididae (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) of the blue chromatic group.)' Avicennia, 1996, Suppl. 1: 1-165.
  6. ↑ Pontes, M., 2018. Felimare fontandraui page at OPK-Opistobranquis.
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