Goniobranchus cavae (Eliot, 1904)

Description

Mantle white to pale grey with a fine violet rim along the outer margin. Rhinophores white at the base and violet at the tip. Gill leaves white to pale grey, with violet rachides.

Distribution

Western Indian Ocean: north-eastern South Africa, Réunion, Mauritius, India and Tanzania. The type locality is Zanzibar.

Remarks

Originally described as Chromodoris cavae Eliot, 1904 in "On some nudibranchs from East Africa and Zanzibar, part IV" (Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond.). Transferred to Goniobranchus by Johnson & a 2012 paper.

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References

• Goniobranchus cavae, 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.
• Goniobranchus cavae, Terrence Gosliner, Ángel Valdés and David Behrens. (2018). Nudibranch and Sea Slug Identification Indo-Pacific 2nd Edition. New World Pubns Inc.