<documentID-CLB-Dataset="6211"ID-DOI="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1042.64474"ID-GBIF-Dataset="c8b43a21-43e6-4be4-a72a-38cbad011db9"ID-PMC="PMC8208966"ID-Pensoft-Pub="1313-2970-1042-73"ID-Pensoft-UUID="1BB0A10A35DD5541850FDAFFDB7119C2"ID-PubMed="34163291"ID-ZooBank="9CF986D86A474E179A67245C78FB8AFD"ModsDocID="1313-2970-1042-73"checkinTime="1623270451541"checkinUser="pensoft"docAuthor="Mehrotra, Rahul, A. Caballer Gutierrez, Manuel, M. Scott, Chad, Arnold, Spencer, Monchanin, Coline, Viyakarn, Voranop & Chavanich, Suchana"docDate="2021"docId="8DA68F1492905428BC3681B87685A82A"docLanguage="en"docName="ZooKeys 1042: 73-188"docOrigin="ZooKeys 1042"docPubDate="2021-06-09"docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1042.64474"docTitle="Chelidonura castanea Yonow 1994"docType="treatment"docVersion="6"id="1BB0A10A35DD5541850FDAFFDB7119C2"lastPageNumber="73"masterDocId="1BB0A10A35DD5541850FDAFFDB7119C2"masterDocTitle="An updated inventory of sea slugs from Koh Tao, Thailand, with notes on their ecology and a dramatic biodiversity increase for Thai waters"masterLastPageNumber="188"masterPageNumber="73"pageNumber="73"updateTime="1719971466177"updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
<mods:titleid="BB7B8E86BA1B23BB398D6760826C9C62">An updated inventory of sea slugs from Koh Tao, Thailand, with notes on their ecology and a dramatic biodiversity increase for Thai waters</mods:title>
<mods:affiliationid="53369D1644B977BE63C70579E6A999D7">Reef Biology Research Group. Department of Marine Science, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand & Aow Thai Marine Ecology Center, Koh Mun Nai, Kram, Klaeng District, Rayong 21110, Thailand</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="2FA96E7A5103BCD00931B433BB526C2A">American University of Paris, Department of Computer Science Math and Environmental Science, 6 rue du Colonel Combes, 75007 Paris, France & Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, 55 rue de Buffon, 75005 Paris, France</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="BBB16E727D36C589DAE87FB0064A727C">Aow Thai Marine Ecology Center, Koh Mun Nai, Kram, Klaeng District, Rayong 21110, Thailand & Research Center on Animal Cognition (CRCA), Center for Integrative Biology (CBI); CNRS, University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse III, France</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="D6F52EACD03CB80406A5445A3E7B548A">Reef Biology Research Group. Department of Marine Science, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="D05436CB87AADFD9DB32A3160B2E9795">Reef Biology Research Group. Department of Marine Science, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand & Center of Excellence for Marine Biotechnology, Department of Marine Science, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand</mods:affiliation>
<figureCitationid="43070D629460F3352E86633757445F88"captionStart="Figure 7"captionStartId="F7"captionText="Figure 7. A Haloa sp. 5 mm B Lamprohaminoea ovalis 18 mm C L. ovalis 9 mm (photograph by Elouise Haskin) D L. ovalis 4 mm E Chelidonura cf. castanea 62 mm F Chelidonura punctata 32 and 34 mm G Niparaya sp. 4 mm H Philinopsis speciosa 18 mm I ' Philinopsis ' Philinopsis coronata 35 mm (photograph by Phannee Mccarthy) J Tubulophilinopsis lineolata 38 mm K Tubulophilinopsis pilsbryi 35 mm L Tubulophilinopsis reticulata 30 mm (photograph by Kirsty Magson)."figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1042.64474.figure7"httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/553101"pageId="0"pageNumber="73">Figure 7E</figureCitation>
<bibRefCitationid="317D87700F5CCA0A772FF98B7385C72F"author="Yonow, N"journalOrPublisher="Fauna of Saudi Arabia"pageId="0"pageNumber="73"refId="B282"refString="Yonow, N, 1994. Opisthobranchs from the Maldive Islands, including descriptions of seven new species (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Revue francaise d'aquariologie (1993) 20: 97-129."title="Opisthobranchs from the Maldive Islands, including descriptions of seven new species (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Revue francaise d'aquariologie (1993) 20: 97 - 129."year="1994">Yonow 1994</bibRefCitation>
Specimens from Koh Tao differ from those originally described by lacking orange spots across the dorsum, instead having only two tiny orange spots on the anterior portion of the head, on either side of the mouth. Additionally, the body is uniformly deep reddish brown with a thin white line on the upper margin of the cephalic shield. In the larger specimen (74 mm), both orange spots and the white line were markedly less distinct. The presence and absence of yellow/orange spots in such Aglajids has been shown to be an unreliable character for species delimitations (
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