Rostanga pulchra

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Rostanga pulchra
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A live individual of Rostanga pulchra, head end towards the right
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Doridina
Superfamily: Doridoidea
Family: Discodorididae
Genus: Rostanga
Species:
R. pulchra
Binomial name
Rostanga pulchra
MacFarland, 1905 [1]

Rostanga pulchra is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusk in the family Discodorididae. [2]

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Distribution

This is a well known species which has been reported on the Pacific Ocean coast of North, Central and South America from Point Craven, Alaska to the Gulf of California, Panama, Chile and Argentina. [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23]

Description

Size up to 30 mm in length. [2]

Habitat

Found intertidally under boulders and in shallow water, normally feeding on the sponge Ophlitaspongia pennata. [2]

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 Rudman, W.B., 2002 (February 4) Rostanga pulchra MacFarland, 1905. [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
  3. ↑ Behrens, D. W. 1980. Pacific coast nudibranchs, a guide to the opisthobranchs of the northeastern Pacific, 112 pp., 162 photos. Sea Challengers, Los Osos, Calif.
  4. ↑ Behrens, D. W. 1991. Pacific coast nudibranchs: a guide to the opisthobranchs, Alaska to Baja California, vi + 107 pp., 217 photos. Second Edition. Sea Challengers, Monterey, California.
  5. ↑ Behrens, D. W. 2004. Pacific Coast Nudibranchs, Supplement II New species to the Pacific Coast and new information on the oldies. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 55(2):11–54.
  6. ↑ Behrens, D. W. 2005. Nudibranch behavior, 176 pp. New World Publications, Inc., Jacksonville, Florida.
  7. ↑ Behrens, D. W., & Alicia Hermosillo. 2005. Eastern Pacific nudibranch, a guide to the opisthobranchs from Alaska to Central America. vi + 137 pp., 314 photos. Sea Challengers, Monterey, California.
  8. ↑ Camacho-Garcia, Y. E., T. M. Gosliner., & Á. Valdés. 2005. Guía de campo de las babosas marinas del Pacifica esto tropical / Field guide to the sea slugs of the tropical eastern Pacific. California Academy of Sciences, 129 pp.
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  10. ↑ Guernsey, Mabel. 1912. Some of the Mollusca of Laguna Beach. First Annual Report of the Laguna Marine Laboratory, Laguna Beach, Orange County, California, Pomona College, pp. 68–82.
  11. ↑ Hoffman, H. 1933. In: H. G. Bronns. Klassen und Ordnungen des Tierreichs wissenschaftlich dartgestellt in Wort und Bild. 3. Band: Mollusca (Weichtiere), II. Abteilung: Gastropoda, 3. Buch: Opisthobranchia, Teil. 1, 2 Lieferung, pp. 153–312, pl. 1.
  12. ↑ Lamb, Andy, & Bernard P. Hanby. 2005. Marine Life of the Pacific northwest, a photographic encyclopedia of invertebrates, seaweeds and selected fishes, 398 pp. Harbour Publishing.
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  18. ↑ McDonald, G. R., & J. W. Nybakken. 1980. Guide to the nudibranchs of California, including most species found from Alaska to Oregon, 72 pp., 112 photos. American Malacologists.
  19. ↑ Muniain, C., & A. Valdés. 2000. Rostanga byga Er. Marcus, 1958 from Argentina: redescription and comparison to Rostanga pulchra MacFarland, 1905 (Mollusca, Nudibranchia, Doridina). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 52(1):1-10.
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