Baeolidia japonica Baba, 1933
Description
A small Aeolidiidae, body length up to 12 mm. Ground colour translucent brown. A wide yellow-white longitudinal band runs from the head along the dorsal midline. Cerata in three groups, thick and short, slightly curled inward. The inner face of the cerata bears bluish-white markings, and the tips taper to a small point. Rhinophores match the body colour and bear many papillae; oral tentacles are tentaculiform with yellow-white markings.Distribution
Type locality: vicinity of the Amakusa Marine Biological Laboratory (Kumamoto, Japan). Subsequent records extend across the western Pacific (Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, the Philippines, Japan).Etymology
The specific epithet japonica is a geographic adjective referring to Japan, the country of origin.Remarks
At one point reassigned to Berghia japonica, but later restored to Baeolidia after neotype designation.References
- ヤマトワグシウミウシ（新稱）, Baba K. (1949). Opisthobranchia of Sagami Bay collected by His Majesty the Emperor of Japan (相模湾産後鰓類図譜). Iwanami Shoten, Tokyo. 4+2+194+7 pp., pls. 1-50.
- 高岡生物研究会. (2002). 日本海のウミウシ. 第2版.
- ヤマトワグシウミウシ, 小野篤司. (2004). 沖縄のウミウシ. ラトルズ.
- ヤマトワグシウミウシ Berghia japonica, 中野理枝. (2004). 本州のウミウシ. ラトルズ.
- ヤマトワグシウミウシ Berghia japonica, 小野篤司 & 加藤昌一. (2009). ウミウシ. 誠文堂新光社.
- Carmona L., Pola M., Gosliner T.M. & Cervera J.L. 2014. Review of Baeolidia, the largest genus of Aeolidiidae (Mollusca: Nudibranchia), with the description of five new species. Zootaxa, 3802 (4): 477–514.
- ヤマトワグシウミウシ, 中野理枝. (2018). 日本のウミウシ. 文一総合出版.
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中野理枝. (2019). 日本のウミウシ. 第二版. 文一総合出版.
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