Tubulophilinopsis pilsbryi (Eliot, 1900)
- Location
- Philippines
- Date
- 2007/02/22
- Length
- 30mm
- Depth
- 5.0m
- Water temperature
- 26.0℃
Description
A headshield slug with a creamy white to yellowish-white ground colour overlain by large dark-brown ring-shaped blotches that cover the entire body except the foot. The species burrows in sandy substrates. Reaches 40 mm in length.Distribution
Widespread in the Indian Ocean and western Pacific. The type locality is Samoa.Remarks
Originally described as Doridium (Aglaja) pilsbryi Eliot, 1900 in the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Transferred from Philinopsis to Tubulophilinopsis by Zamora-Silva & a 2018 revision based on molecular phylogeny of the Aglajidae.References
- ピルスブリィ, 小野篤司. (1999). ウミウシガイドブック. TBSブリタニカ.
- ワモンキセワタガイ（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・ピルスブリ, 殿塚孝昌. (2003). ウミウシガイドブック〈3〉. TBSブリタニカ.
- ワモンキセワタ, 小野篤司. (2004). 沖縄のウミウシ. ラトルズ.
- ワモンキセワタ, 中野理枝. (2004). 本州のウミウシ. ラトルズ.
- Philinopsis pilsbryi, 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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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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Sea slug observation data is available in international marine biodiversity databases.