Platydoris sanguinea Bergh, 1905
- Location
- Pacifico Azul House Reef, Anilao, Philippines
- Date
- 2016/04/19
- Length
- 20mm
- Depth
- 11.0m
- Water temperature
- 28.0℃
Description
A large platydorid reaching 9 cm in length alive. The dorsum is dark blood-red on a fine black underlying network; the leaves of the rhinophore club are edged with white, and the gill is white with reddish rachidial portions. The branchial opening is bordered by 5 lobes of unequal size, with 6 strong feather-like gill plumes around a slender anal papilla.Distribution
Type locality: reef of the south island at Saleyer (Saleyer Strait, southern Sulawesi, Indonesia). Also recorded at the time of description from Pulu Sanguisiapo in the Sulu Archipelago and from Ambon.Etymology
The specific epithet sanguinea is the feminine of the Latin adjective sanguineus ("blood-red, of blood"), a descriptive epithet referring to the dark blood-red dorsal colour recorded in the living animal.Remarks
Distinguished from the contemporaneously described Platydoris flammulata, with which it might at first be confused.References
- Platydoris sanguinea Bgh. n. sp., Bergh R. (1905). Die Opisthobranchiata der Siboga-expedition. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.11223
- プラティドーリス・サングイネア, 小野篤司. (2004). 沖縄のウミウシ. ラトルズ.
- プラティドーリス・サングイネア, 中野理枝. (2004). 本州のウミウシ. ラトルズ.
- プラティドーリス・サングイネア, 小野篤司 & 加藤昌一. (2009). ウミウシ. 誠文堂新光社.
- Platydoris sanguinea, Terrence Gosliner, Ángel Valdés and David Behrens. (2015). Nudibranch and Sea Slug Identification Indo-Pacific. New World Pubns Inc.
- スオウウミウシ(新称), 中野理枝, 朝倉知子, 池田紫, 石川雅教, 今本淳, 岩瀬南美, 西田和記, 堀江諒, 山田久子 & 渡井久美. (2017). 奄美大島北部海域における後鰓類相の調査報告. Kuroshio Biosphere. 13: 1-18 + 6 pls.
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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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