Goniobranchus kuniei

Goniobranchus kuniei
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
Superfamily: Doridoidea
Family: Chromodorididae
Genus: Goniobranchus
Species: G. kuniei
Binomial name
Goniobranchus kuniei
(Pruvot-Fol, 1930)[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Chromodoris kuniei Pruvot-Fol, 1930
  • Chromodoris kuniei ransoni
  • Glossodoris kuniei (Pruvot-Fol, 1930)
  • Glossodoris ransoni Pruvot-Fol, 1954

Goniobranchus kuniei is a species of very colourful sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Chromodorididae.[2]

Distribution

This species was described from New Caledonia. It is known from the western Pacific Ocean and eastern Indian Ocean from Fiji, Marshall Islands, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines.[3]

Description

Goniobranchus kuniei has a pattern of blue spots with pale blue haloes on a creamy mantle. There is a double border to the mantle of purple and blue. The length of the body reaches 40 mm.[4] The species Goniobranchus tritos and Goniobranchus geminus have similar colour patterns.

Habitat

It likes waters that are between 21 and 26 degrees Celsius and is often found between 5 and 40 meters.

References

  1. ↑ Pruvot-Fol, A. 1930. Diagnose provisoires (incomplètes) des espèces nouvelles et liste provisoire des mollusques nudibranches recueillis par Mme. A. Pruvot-Fol en Nouvelle Calédonie (Ile des Pins). Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, series 2, 2(2):229-232.
  2. 1 2 WoRMS (2011). Goniobranchus kuniei Pruvot-Fol, 1930. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 May 2012
  3. ↑ Rudman, W.B., 1999 (January 22) Chromodoris kuniei Pruvot-Fol, 1930. [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
  4. ↑ Rudman W.B. (1987) The Chromodorididae (Opisthobranchia: Mollusca) of the Indo-West Pacific: Chromodoris epicuria, C. aureopurpurea, C. annulata, C. coi and Risbecia tryoni colour groups. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 90: 305-407. page(s): 341

Further reading

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 9/12/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.