Chromodoris lochi Rudman, 1982
- Location
- Kirby's Rock, Anilao, Philippines
- Date
- 2016/04/20
- Length
- 30mm
- Depth
- 10.0m
- Water temperature
- 28.0℃
Description
Mantle ground colour white to pale bluish white with a thin white edge band. A thin black line runs around the front of the mantle, in front of the rhinophores, and joins along each side behind the gills; a separate median black line runs from between the rhinophores to the gill pocket (often broken or reduced centrally). Gills and rhinophores are pale watery yellow to pale orange (regionally variable, sometimes tinged red or paler). Up to three thin black lines run along each side of the body. The mantle is elongate with a narrow overlap, giving a spatulate shape. Few gills (rarely more than 5-6) form a posteriorly-open circle and are held vertically. Reaches 30 mm alive (15-25 mm preserved).Distribution
Type locality is Beqa Lagoon, Stuart Island, Fiji (5 m depth, November 1972). Recorded by Rudman from the Great Barrier Reef (Lizard Island, Fish Rock), Papua New Guinea (Port Moresby), Vanuatu (Espiritu Santo, Efate), and Fiji. Subsequent records extend to the Philippines, Singapore, New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands, Tonga, and the Society Islands — a widespread tropical western Pacific species.Etymology
The specific epithet lochi honours Ian Loch, Technical Officer in the Malacology Department of the Australian Museum, who collected and photographed extensive opisthobranch material in Queensland for the museum (verbatim from the original description).Remarks
Closely resembles Chromodoris boucheti and Chromodoris willani (described in the same paper) in its three-black-line pattern, but is distinguished externally by (1) a spatulate (not elongate-oval) mantle and (2) pale orange-yellow gills and rhinophores (versus translucent brown with white patches in Chromodoris willani).References
- ミスジアオイロウミウシ, 小野篤司. (1999). ウミウシガイドブック. TBSブリタニカ.
- トギレミスジイロウミウシ, 奥谷喬司. (2000). 日本近海産貝類図鑑. 東海大学出版会.
- クロモドリス・ロチ, 殿塚孝昌. (2003). ウミウシガイドブック〈3〉. TBSブリタニカ.
- ミスジアオイロウミウシ, 小野篤司. (2004). 沖縄のウミウシ. ラトルズ.
- ミスジアオイロウミウシ, 中野理枝. (2004). 本州のウミウシ. ラトルズ.
- ミスジアオイロウミウシ, 小野篤司 & 加藤昌一. (2009). ウミウシ. 誠文堂新光社.
- Chromodoris lochi, 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.
- Chromodoris lochi, Terrence Gosliner, Ángel Valdés and David Behrens. (2015). Nudibranch and Sea Slug Identification Indo-Pacific. New World Pubns Inc.
- Chromodoris lochi, Layton K.K., Gosliner T.M. & Wilson N.G. (2018). Flexible colour patterns obscure identification and mimicry in Indo-Pacific Chromodoris nudibranchs (Gastropoda: Chromodorididae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 124: 27-36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2018.02.008
- ミスジアオイロウミウシ, 中野理枝. (2018). 日本のウミウシ. 文一総合出版.
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Terrence Gosliner, Ángel Valdés and David Behrens. (2018). Nudibranch and Sea Slug Identification Indo-Pacific 2nd Edition. New World Pubns Inc.
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