Felimare gasconi

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Felimare gasconi
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Doridina
Superfamily: Doridoidea
Family: Chromodorididae
Genus: Felimare
Species:
F. gasconi
Binomial name
Felimare gasconi
(Ortea, 1996) [1]
Synonyms [2]
  • Hypselodoris gasconi Ortea, 1996 (basionym)

Felimare gasconi is a species of colourful sea slug or dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Chromodorididae. [2] [3]

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Distribution

This species was described from Calvi, Haute-Corse, France in the Mediterranean Sea.

Description

Felimare gasconi has a dark blue body with a single white line running centrally along the dorsum. It has an orange and white edged mantle. The gills and rhinophores are dark blue, faintly outlined with white. This species can reach a total length of at least 15 mm. [4]

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References

  1. 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): 120
  2. 1 2 Bouchet, P. (2012). Felimare gasconi. 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. Rudman, W.B., 2006 (June 6) Hypselodoris gasconi Ortea in Ortea, Valdés & García-Gómez, 1996. [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.