Noumeaella rehderi Er. Marcus, 1965
- Location
- Secret Garden, Anilao, Philippines
- Date
- 2016/04/18
- Length
- 10mm
- Depth
- 14.0m
- Water temperature
- 28.7℃
Description
A small Indo-West Pacific aeolid nudibranch up to about 12 mm in length, with a translucent body bearing scattered white spots and curved cerata. Body translucent whitish with small white spots scattered over the dorsum, oral tentacles, and rhinophores. Cerata are pale brown, sometimes with brown markings at the tips, and strongly curved. Rhinophores bear a dense cluster of papillae on their posterior surface and are smooth in front. Oral tentacles are long and smooth. The anterior cerata form a horseshoe and the posterior cerata are arranged in four groups.Distribution
The type locality is the reef flat off the southern end of Ngemelis Island, Palau Islands. Widely distributed across the Indo-West Pacific, with records from Madagascar, Tanzania, Australia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Palau, Japan, the Marshall Islands, Midway Atoll, and the Hawaiian Islands.Etymology
Named by Marcus in honour of Dr Harald A. Rehder of the Smithsonian Institution, who supplied the Micronesian collection on which the original description was based.References
- Noumeaella, Risbec J. (1937). Note préliminaire au sujet de Nudibranches Néo-Calédoniens. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. (2)9(2): 159-164.
- Noumeaella rehderi sp. nov., Marcus Er. (1965). Some Opisthobranchia from Micronesia. Malacologia. 3(2): 263-286.
- フイリフサツノミノウミウシ(新称), 中野理枝 & 小谷光. (2016). 高知県大月町樫西海域及び一切海域から記録された後鰓類. Kuroshio Biosphere. 12: 21-43.
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