Misplaced Pages

Diaulula phoca

Article snapshot taken from[REDACTED] with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
(Redirected from Montereina phoca) Species of gastropod

Diaulula phoca
Dorsal view of Diaulula phoca.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Family: Discodorididae
Genus: Diaulula
Species: D. phoca
Binomial name
Diaulula phoca
(Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1967)
Synonyms

Discodoris phoca Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1967
Montereina phoca (Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1967)

Diaulula phoca is a species of sea slug or dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Discodorididae.

Taxonomy

This species was originally described under the name Discodoris phoca by Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus and Ernst Gustav Gotthelf Marcus in 1967. It is considered a member of Diaulula because of the presence of caryophyllidia.

Distribution

Distribution of Diaulula phoca includes Florida, Honduras, Costa Rica, Brazil and Panama.

The type locality is west side of the Key Biscayne island, Florida. The holotype is stored in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.

Description

The body is oval. Mantle is rigid. Dorsum is covered with small caryophyllidia. Body, rhinophores, and gill are dark purplish brown with numerous small opaque white dots. It is up to 55 mm long.

Ecology

It feeds on sponges.

References

This article incorporates Creative Commons (CC-BY-4.0) text from the reference

  1. ^ Marcus Ev. & Marcus Er. (1967). "American opisthobranch mollusks". Studies in Tropical Oceanography 6: 1–256. pages 78-80, figures 99-101.
  2. Rosenberg, G. (2010). Diaulula phoca (Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1967). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=532733 on 2012-03-01
  3. ^ Goodheart J. A., Ellingson R. A., Vital X. G., Galvão Filho H. C., McCarthy J. B., Medrano S. M., Bhave V. J., García-Méndez K., Jiménez L. M., López G. & Hoover C. A. (2016). "Identification guide to the heterobranch sea slugs (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from Bocas del Toro, Panama". Marine Biodiversity Records 9(1): 56. doi:10.1186/s41200-016-0048-z
Taxon identifiers
Diaulula phoca
Discodoris phoca
Categories:
Diaulula phoca Add topic