Doriprismatica atromarginata (Cuvier, 1804)
- Location
- Koala Reef, Anilao, Philippines
- Date
- 2013/03/17
- Length
- 50mm
- Depth
- 18.0m
- Water temperature
- 27.0℃
Description
Ground color cream to pale yellow, with the most distinctive identification feature being a thin black line bordering the mantle margin. The mantle is smooth and slightly undulating, and the body sides may appear semi-translucent. Rhinophores and gills are yellowish-white, matching the body color, and the gill leaves are also edged with a fine black line. Body length reaches up to about 100 mm.Distribution
Type locality is Timor Island. Widely distributed across tropical and subtropical waters of the Indo-West and central Pacific, with records from the Red Sea, East Africa, South Africa, Japan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Australia, Hawaii, and the Society Islands. Common on coral reef habitats.Etymology
From Latin ater (black) and marginatus (bordered), referring to the thin black line bordering the mantle margin.Remarks
It feeds on sponges and is one of the most commonly encountered chromodorids on Indo-West Pacific coral reefs.References
- キイロウミウシ(新称), 滝巌. (1932). 貝類雜記(4). ヴヰナス. 3(4).
- Casella atromarginata (Cuvier), Allan J.K. (1947). Nudibranchia from the Clarence River Heads, north coast, New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum, 21(8): 433-463, pls. xli-xliii and map. https://doi.org/10.3853/j.0067-1975.21.1947.561
- キイロウミウシ, 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.
- Glossodoris atromarginata (Cuvier, 1804), Rudman W.B. (1986). The Chromodorididae (Opisthobranchia: Mollusca) of the Indo-West Pacific: the genus Glossodoris Ehrenberg (= Casella, H. & A. Adams). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 86(2): 101-184.
- キイロウミウシ, 小野篤司. (1999). ウミウシガイドブック. TBSブリタニカ.
- キイロウミウシ, 鈴木敬宇. (2000). ウミウシガイドブック〈2〉. TBSブリタニカ.
- 高岡生物研究会. (2002). 日本海のウミウシ. 第2版.
- キイロウミウシ, 殿塚孝昌. (2003). ウミウシガイドブック〈3〉. TBSブリタニカ.
- キイロウミウシ, 小野篤司. (2004). 沖縄のウミウシ. ラトルズ.
- キイロウミウシ, 中野理枝. (2004). 本州のウミウシ. ラトルズ.
- キイロウミウシ, 小野篤司 & 加藤昌一. (2009). ウミウシ. 誠文堂新光社.
- Doriprismatica atromarginata, 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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