Murphydoris maracabranchia Paz-Sedano, Smirnoff, Candás, Gosliner & Pola, 2022
Description
Body uniformly opaque white. Rhinophore tips red or orange. A fine brown line runs behind each rhinophore. The lateral processes share the white body colour.Distribution
Papua New Guinea, Japan, the Philippines.Etymology
A compound of Spanish maraca (the percussion instrument) + Latin branchia (gill).Remarks
Murphydoris is a genus of small cryptic Goniodorididae. Paz-Sedano et al. 2022 revised the genus and described several new species including the present one.References
- Goniodoridella sp. 4, Terrence Gosliner, Ángel Valdés and David Behrens. (2015). Nudibranch and Sea Slug Identification Indo-Pacific. New World Pubns Inc.
- Goniodoridella sp. 9, 中野理枝. (2018). 日本のウミウシ. 文一総合出版.
- Goniodoridella sp. 4, Terrence Gosliner, Ángel Valdés and David Behrens. (2018). Nudibranch and Sea Slug Identification Indo-Pacific 2nd Edition. New World Pubns Inc.
- Murphydoris Maracabranchia sp. nov., Paz-Sedano, S., Smirnoff, D., Candás, M., Gosliner, T.M. & Pola, M. (2022). Rediscovering the overlooked genus Murphydoris (Nudibranchia: Goniodorididae): the first phylogeny and addition of four new species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab122., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab122
- Paz-Sedano S., Moles J., Smirnoff D., Gosliner T.M. & Pola M. (2024). A combined phylogenetic strategy illuminates the evolution of Goniodorididae nudibranchs (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Heterobranchia). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 192: 107990. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2023.107990
- PAZ-SEDANO S., COBB G., GOSLINER T.M. & POLA M. (2024). Filling gaps in the knowledge of Goniodorididae taxa (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Nudibranchia) with description of seven new species. Zootaxa. 5443(4): 523-547. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5443.4.3
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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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