Verconia romeri (Risbec, 1928)
- Location
- Cathedral Rock, Anilao, Philippines
- Date
- 2016/04/20
- Length
- 14mm
- Depth
- 10.0m
- Water temperature
- 28.7℃
Description
Ground colour peach-pink. The outermost mantle margin is bordered by a thin white line. Rhinophore stalks transparent, clubs orange to red-orange. Gill orange to red-orange. Reaches 20 mm.Distribution
New Caledonia (type locality), Australia, Philippines, Japan.Remarks
Originally described as Noumea romeri Risbec, 1928 (Faune des Colonies Françaises 2(1): 165). Now placed in Verconia Pruvot-Fol, 1931, because Noumea Risbec, 1928 is a junior homonym of Noumea Fauvel, 1874 (Polychaeta). This species has been used to anchor a "Noumea romeri colour group" within the small-bodied Indo-West Pacific chromodorids.References
- Noumea Romeri, 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]
- フジムスメウミウシ（仮称）, 益田一. (1999). 海洋生物ガイドブック. 東海大学出版会.
- フジムスメウミウシ（仮称）, 小野篤司. (1999). ウミウシガイドブック. TBSブリタニカ.
- Verconia romeri, Johnson R.F. & Gosliner T.M. (2012). Traditional taxonomic groupings mask evolutionary history: a molecular phylogeny and new classification of the chromodorid nudibranchs. PLoS ONE 7(4): e33479.
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