Cyerce goodheartae K. Moreno, Gosliner, N. G. Wilson, Krug & Á. Valdés, 2025
- Location
- Sunabe Water Treatment Plants, Okinawa Island (Chatan and Southern area), Okinawa, Japan
- Date
- 2018/06/06
- Length
- 10mm
- Depth
- 10.0m
- Water temperature
- 24.0℃
Description
A species of Cyerce sharing the leaf-shaped cerata that characterise the genus, which it bears in rows across the back. It closely resembles its congeners, and reliable identification requires anatomical and molecular study.Distribution
Type locality: Bismarck Sea, eastern Papua New Guinea.Etymology
The authors who described the species named it after Jessica Goodheart, a researcher on the phylogeny of sacoglossans and nudibranchs.Remarks
A sacoglossan in the family Caliphyllidae, with a distinctive body bearing numerous leaf-like cerata. Like other Cyerce, it can autotomise these cerata when disturbed.References
- スカシウロコウミウシ（新称）, 小野篤司. (2004). 沖縄のウミウシ. ラトルズ.
- Cyerce sp. 1, Terrence Gosliner, Ángel Valdés and David Behrens. (2015). Nudibranch and Sea Slug Identification Indo-Pacific. New World Pubns Inc.
- Cyerce goodheartae sp. nov., Moreno K., Medrano S., Gosliner T.M., Wilson N.G., Krug P.J. & Valdés Á. (2025). Phylogenetic systematics of the genus Cyerce (Mollusca: Heterobranchia: Sacoglossa: Caliphyllidae) from the Pacific and Indian oceans with descriptions of nine new species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 204(1): zlaf030. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf030
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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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Same Genus Nudibranchs
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Sea slug observation data is available in international marine biodiversity databases.