Peltodoris murrea (Abraham, 1877)
- Location
- OKAHA OUTREEF, Okinawa Island (Chatan and Southern area), Okinawa, Japan
- Date
- 2016/06/08
- Length
- 30mm
- Depth
- 8.0m
- Water temperature
- 25.0℃
Description
Body white, rounded-oval and flattened. The dorsum is densely speckled with white dots and sparsely marked with brownish blotches. The rhinophores are white. Found under stones. Reaches 48 mm in length.Distribution
Indo-West Pacific. In Japan recorded from Mutsu Bay and Akkeshi Bay (Baba, 1935, as Peltodoris mauritiana).Etymology
The specific epithet murrea comes from the Latin adjective murreus, -a, -um, meaning "of myrrh" or "myrrh-coloured (yellowish-brown)."Remarks
Originally described by Abraham 1877 as Doris murrea, the species was later transferred to Peltodoris by Bergh 1880. Bergh 1889 subsequently described Mauritian material as Peltodoris mauritiana, but this name is now treated as a junior synonym of P. murrea.References
- Peltodoris mauritiana Bergh, 1889, Baba, K. 1935c. The fauna of Akkeshi Bay. I. Opisthobranchia. Journal of the Faculty of Science, Hokkaido Imperial University, series 6, Zoology 4(3):115-125, pls. 7-8.
- Peltodoris murrea, Terrence Gosliner, Ángel Valdés and David Behrens. (2015). Nudibranch and Sea Slug Identification Indo-Pacific. New World Pubns Inc.
- シロコダテウミウシ（新称）, 中野理枝. (2018). 日本のウミウシ. 文一総合出版.
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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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Same Genus Nudibranchs
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