Phyllidia ocellata Cuvier, 1804
- Location
- Nudi Falls, Lembeh, Sulawesi, Indonesia
- Date
- 2015/01/26
- Length
- 30mm
- Depth
- 8.0m
- Water temperature
- 29.0℃
Description
A mid-sized phyllidiid reaching about 65 mm in length. Body broadly oval, dorsoventrally flattened, with a tuberculate yellowish-cream mantle. The dorsum carries large round yellow tubercles arranged in three to five irregular longitudinal rows, surrounded by a network of fine black lines on a bluish-grey ground. The mantle margin is unbroken and bordered by a black band. Rhinophores yellow, retractile into low pockets near the front of the mantle. Lateral gills lie in a series of lamellae running along both sides between mantle and foot, in classic Phyllidiidae arrangement.Distribution
Indian Ocean and central / western Pacific. Type locality: "Mer des Indes" (Indian Ocean), based on Péron material from the early 19th-century Baudin expedition.Etymology
The specific epithet ocellata is the Latin feminine of ocellatus, "marked with eye-spots" (from ocellus, "little eye"), in reference to the conspicuous round yellow tubercles arranged like ocelli on the dorsum.Remarks
Type species of the genus Phyllidia. Like other phyllidiids, feeds on sponges.References
- Phyllidia ocellata, Cuvier G. (1804). Mémoire sur la Phyllidie et sur le Pleuro-branche, deux nouveaux genres de mollusques de l'ordre des gastéropodes, et voisins des patelles et des oscabrions, dont l'un est nu et dont l'autre porte une coquille cachée. Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. 5: 266-276, pl. 18-19.
- イボウミウシ(新称), Baba, K. 1930c. Studies on Japanese nudibranchs (3). A. Phyllidiidae. B. Aeolididae. Venus 2(3): 117-122.
- イボウミウシ, Baba K. (1949). Opisthobranchia of Sagami Bay collected by His Majesty the Emperor of Japan (相模湾産後鰓類図譜). Iwanami Shoten, Tokyo. 4+2+194+7 pp., pls. 1-50.
- Phyllidia ocellata CUVIER, 1804 キイロイボウミウシ(馬場改称〕, 馬場菊太郎 & 濱谷巌. (1975). 紀伊産イボウミウシ科種名表. ちりぼたん. 8(7): 149-151.
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- キイロイボウミウシ, 小野篤司 & 加藤昌一. (2009). ウミウシ. 誠文堂新光社.
- Phyllidia ocellata, Terrence Gosliner, Ángel Valdés and David Behrens. (2015). Nudibranch and Sea Slug Identification Indo-Pacific. New World Pubns Inc.
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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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