Phyllodesmium poindimiei (Risbec, 1928)
- Location
- Red Beach, Okinawa Island (East coast), Okinawa, Japan
- Date
- 2009/04/23
- Length
- 30mm
- Depth
- 10.0m
- Water temperature
- 22.0℃
Description
Ground colour translucent white with fine white speckling over the body surface. Cerata long, slender, and gently coiled, with a transparent surface through which the digestive gland is visible; tips yellowish white. Rhinophores and oral tentacles smooth, long, with the distal half yellowish white. Reaches 40 mm.Distribution
New Caledonia (type locality: Poindimié), Mozambique, Australia, Indonesia, Philippines, Japan, Marshall Islands, Hawaii.Etymology
Named after Poindimié, the town on the east coast of Grande Terre, New Caledonia, where the type material was collected.Remarks
Originally described as Aeolidia poindimiei Risbec, 1928, and subsequently transferred to Phyllodesmium.References
- Aeolidia Poindimiei, Risbec J. (1928). Contribution à l'étude des nudibranches néo-calédoniens. Faune des Colonies françaises, Tome II: 1-328, 12 pls. (Société d'Éditions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales, Paris). [doctoral thesis monograph]
- Phyllodesmium poindimiei, Rudman W.B. (1981). The anatomy and biology of alcyonarian-feeding aeolid opisthobranch molluscs and their development of symbiosis with zooxanthellae. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 72(3): 219-262. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1981.tb01571.x
- ハナビラミノウミウシ（新称）, 小野篤司. (2004). 沖縄のウミウシ. ラトルズ.
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