Ardeadoris poliahu (Bertsch & Gosliner, 1989)

Description

Ground colour yellowish white. The mantle margin is undulate and bordered, from outside in, by white, red, and white. The dorsum bears scattered white dots. Rhinophores red. Gills white with red rachides. Reaches 35 mm in length.

Distribution

Widely distributed from the Indian Ocean to the western Pacific; type locality in the Hawaiian Islands.

Etymology

The specific epithet poliahu refers to Poliahu, the Hawaiian goddess of snow.

Remarks

Formerly placed in Glossodoris. Transferred to Ardeadoris following the molecular phylogenetic revision of Chromodorididae by a 2012 molecular revision.

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References

• イロウミウシ属の1種, 小野篤司. (2004). 沖縄のウミウシ. ラトルズ.
• Ardeadoris poliahu, 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.
• Ardeadoris poliahu, Terrence Gosliner, Ángel Valdés and David Behrens. (2015). Nudibranch and Sea Slug Identification Indo-Pacific. New World Pubns Inc.
• ポリアフウミウシ（新称）, 中野理枝. (2018). 日本のウミウシ. 文一総合出版.