Cadlinella ornatissima (Risbec, 1928)
- Location
- Gontarouiwaoki, Hayama, Kanagawa, Japan
- Date
- 2004/08/16
- Length
- 15mm
- Depth
- 12.0m
- Water temperature
- 25.0℃
Description
Ground colour translucent white with a yellow dorsum bearing oval white papillae whose tips are tinted red to pink. Rhinophores white and elongate. Gill white. Reaches 35 mm.Distribution
New Caledonia (type locality), South Africa, Réunion, Madagascar, Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia, Indonesia, New Zealand, Australia, Fiji, Tonga, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, Marshall Islands.Etymology
Latin ornatissima, the feminine superlative of ornatus, "most ornate / most adorned."Remarks
Originally described in Risbec, J. 1928 "Contribution à l'étude des nudibranches néo-calédoniens," Faune des Colonies Françaises 2(1): 1-328.References
- Cadlina ornatissima, Risbec J. (1928). Contribution à l'étude des nudibranches néo-calédoniens. Faune des Colonies françaises, Tome II: 1-328, 12 pls. (Société d'Éditions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales, Paris). [doctoral thesis monograph]
- イガグリウミウシ（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.
- Cadlinella ornatissima, 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.
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Same Genus Nudibranchs
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