Notodoris gardineri Eliot, 1906

Description

Ground colour bright yellow, with green to blackish-brown blotches of variable size and shape scattered over the entire dorsum. The body surface bears small tubercles. Rhinophores are short, smooth and pointed, yellow in adults but blackish in juveniles. Three prominent rounded protuberances stand in front of the gill. Feeds on the yellow calcareous sponge Leucetta primigenia. Reaches 100 mm in length.

Distribution

Maldives, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and Japan. The type locality is the Maldive-Laccadive Archipelago.

Etymology

Named in honour of J. Stanley Gardiner, leader of the 1899-1900 Cambridge Maldive-Laccadive expedition and the supplier of the type material to Eliot.

Remarks

Originally described in Gardiner's edited volume "The fauna and geography of the Maldive and Laccadive Archipelagoes" (vol. 2, pt. 1, 1906). The species has been moved between Notodoris and Aegires; WoRMS currently lists Notodoris gardineri as the accepted name and Aegires gardineri as an unaccepted synonym.

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References

• Notodoris gardineri, Terrence Gosliner, Ángel Valdés and David Behrens. (2015). Nudibranch and Sea Slug Identification Indo-Pacific. New World Pubns Inc.
• キイロトラフウミウシ, 中野理枝. (2018). 日本のウミウシ. 文一総合出版.
• Aegires gardineri, Terrence Gosliner, Ángel Valdés and David Behrens. (2018). Nudibranch and Sea Slug Identification Indo-Pacific 2nd Edition. New World Pubns Inc.
• フイリレモンウミウシ（新称）, 中野理枝. (2019). 日本のウミウシ. 第二版. 文一総合出版.