Nembrotha kubaryana Bergh, 1877
- Location
- USAT Liberty Shipwreck, Tulamben, Pulau Bali, Indonesia
- Date
- 2015/03/05
- Length
- 50mm
- Depth
- 12.0m
- Water temperature
- 29.0℃
Description
Ground colour dark violet. The dorsum is interrupted by larger green markings, partly arranged in rows and fusing anteriorly into a transverse band. The dorsal margin, the rim of the rhinophore opening, the oral tentacles, the anterior head margin and the rachides of the gill plumes are red; the foot is bluish. Lingual armature similar to N. nigerrima but with only ten lateral teeth on each side.Distribution
Type locality: Ngadarrak Reef, Palau Islands, western Pacific, where the type series was collected in March 1873. The species is now known to be widely distributed across the Indo-West Pacific, from the Red Sea and East Africa through Southeast Asia, Oceania and Japanese waters, and feeds on colonial ascidians.Etymology
The specific epithet kubaryana is a patronym for the Polish naturalist and natural-history collector Jan Stanisław Kubary (1846-1896), who collected the type material at Palau and provided coloured drawings from life. Kubary was for many years the leading field collector for the Hamburg Museum Godeffroy in Micronesia and the South Pacific, gathering both natural-history and ethnographic material in Palau, Pohnpei and Samoa.Remarks
The original spelling in the type description is Nembrotha Kubaryana, with the capitalised epithet conforming to the 19th-century convention for honorifics; the current spelling kubaryana follows the ICZN. Most Nembrothidae are ascidian feeders, and this species is a recorded predator of colonial tunicates.References
- Nembrotha Kubaryana Bgh. n. sp., Bergh R. (1877). Malacologische Untersuchungen. In: Semper C. (ed.), Reisen im Archipel der Philippinen. II. Wissenschaftliche Resultate. Bd. II, Heft XI: 429-494, Taf. LIV-LVII. Wiesbaden: C.W. Kreidel's Verlag.
- アカフチリュウグウウミウシ, 益田一. (1999). 海洋生物ガイドブック. 第2刷. 東海大学出版会.
- クバリャーナ, 小野篤司. (1999). ウミウシガイドブック. TBSブリタニカ.
- メンブロタ・クバリャナ, 殿塚孝昌. (2003). ウミウシガイドブック〈3〉. TBSブリタニカ.
- アカフチリュウグウウミウシ, 小野篤司. (2004). 沖縄のウミウシ. ラトルズ.
- Pola M., Cervera J.L. & Gosliner T.M. (2008). Revision of the Indo-Pacific genus Nembrotha (Nudibranchia: Dorididae: Polyceridae), with a description of two new species. Scientia Marina. 72(1): 145-183. https://doi.org/10.3989/scimar.2008.72n1145
- Nembrotha kubaryana, Terrence Gosliner, Ángel Valdés and David Behrens. (2015). Nudibranch and Sea Slug Identification Indo-Pacific. New World Pubns Inc.
- Juvenile of Nembrotha kubaryana, Pola, M., Paz-Sedano, S., Guisado Martín, P., Warren, L., Noble, K. & Martín-Hervás, M.R. (2026). The most wanted! Gorgeous, delicate and surprising description of three new polycerid species (Mollusca, Heterobranchia) from East Timor. Zootaxa, 5793(1), 193-217.
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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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