Piseinotecus kima

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Piseinotecus kima
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Dexiarchia
clade Cladobranchia

clade

Contents

Aeolidida
Superfamily:
Aeolidioidea
Family:
Piseinotecidae
Genus:
Piseinotecus
Species:
P. kima
Binomial name
Piseinotecus kima
Edmunds, 1970 [1]

Piseinotecus kima is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Piseinotecidae.

Distribution

This nudibranch was described from Oysterbay, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Description

This piseinotecid nudibranch is translucent white in colour and reaches 5 mm in length but probably grows larger, as the only known specimen was not fully mature. The entire body and the lower part of the rhinophores are covered with scattered orange-yellow and smaller white spots. The rhinophores and oral tentacles have white spots near the base, followed by a pale green band, then a broad white band and clear tips. The digestive gland in the cerata is pale brown and there are white and small red-brown spots on the surfaces of the cerata. The cerata are slightly tuberculate, as in some species of Eubranchus.

Ecology

Piseinotecus kima feeds on hydroids.

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References

  1. ↑ Edmunds, M. 1970. Opisthobranchiate Mollusca from Tanzania. II. Eolidacea (Cuthonidae, Piseinotecidae and Facelinidae). Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 39:15-57.
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