Tubulophilinopsis gardineri (Eliot, 1903) – Nudibranch Identification & Photos | SEASLUG.WORLD

アオフチキセワタ Tubulophilinopsis gardineri

Location: Cape Maeda, Okinawa Island (Onna and Yomitan area), Okinawa, Japan
Date: 2010/08/19
Length: 40mm
Depth: 25.0m
Water temperature: 29.0℃

Description

Ground colour ranges from dark brown to dark blue. The lateral parapodia and the posterior margin of the cephalic shield are outlined in blue. Some specimens carry white blotches on the anterior or posterior portion of the cephalic shield. Similar to Philinopsis cyanea but distinguished by a rounded head and a non-raised posterior cephalic margin. Generally reaches 35 mm, with records up to 50 mm from Okinawa.

Distribution

Widespread across the Indian Ocean and western Pacific. The type locality is the Maldive-Laccadive Archipelago (Gardiner expedition, 1899-1900).

Etymology

Named in honour of J. Stanley Gardiner, the Cambridge zoologist who led the 1899-1900 expedition to the Maldive and Laccadive Archipelagoes and supplied Eliot with the type material.

Remarks

Originally described as Doridium gardineri Eliot, 1903 in the Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. Transferred from Philinopsis to Tubulophilinopsis by Zamora-Silva & a 2018 revision.

References

ガーディナーイ, 小野篤司. (1999). ウミウシガイドブック. TBSブリタニカ.
アオフチキセワタガイ（新称）, 小野篤司. (2000). ウミウシガイドブック. 第2版. TBSブリタニカ.
フィリノプシス・ガルディネリ, 殿塚孝昌. (2003). ウミウシガイドブック〈3〉. TBSブリタニカ.
アオフチキセワタ, 小野篤司. (2004). 沖縄のウミウシ. ラトルズ.
アオフチキセワタ, 中野理枝. (2004). 本州のウミウシ. ラトルズ.
アオフチキセワタ, 小野篤司 & 加藤昌一. (2009). ウミウシ. 誠文堂新光社.
Philinopsis gardineri, Terrence Gosliner, Ángel Valdés and David Behrens. (2015). Nudibranch and Sea Slug Identification Indo-Pacific. New World Pubns Inc.
Andrea Zamora-Silva and Manuel António E. Malaquias Molecular phylogeny of the Aglajidae head-shield sea slugs (Heterobranchia: Cephalaspidea): new evolutionary lineages revealed and proposal of a new classification Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2017

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BISMaL OBIS DOI: 10.48518/00032

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