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<mods:titleid="7D1B2146DA41C7750EEE9A6587E35A8E">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="906F881D99BAF80D30FD2027C432D403">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="18A291FD3EC0D4708B49AB1B6B21E1BC">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="EDB2D3BEF21D55A0CDD19027FB34DC8D">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="8D4461465C64FCFE0514AAEDA9791CA8">Reef Biology Research Group. Department of Marine Science, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="097F08C239F7B956CEA0F6A2FBF2BF5F">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="C888202D5F0F8E17A951700D7EB84EFC"captionStart="Figure 4"captionStartId="F4"captionText="Figure 4. A Costasiella cf. kuroshimae 6 mm B Costasiella usagi 6 mm C Limapontiidae sp. 3 mm D Plakobranchus noctisstellatus 21 mm (photograph by Pau Urgell Plaza) E Plakobranchus ocellatus 32 mm F Plakobranchus papua 27 mm G Plakobranchus papua 21 mm on Holothuria edulis H Elysia aowthai 12 mm I Elysia asbecki 15 mm J Elysia cf. marginata 70 mm K Elysia mercieri 12 mm L Elysia obtusa 9 mm."figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1042.64474.figure4"httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/553098"pageId="0"pageNumber="73">Figure 4A</figureCitation>
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Due to the original description of the species being entirely based on external features, the identity of numerous similar species and the extent of the variability of the species has remained unclear for several years. Molecular work (
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) indicates that this species is palatable to some scleractinian corals and, based on natural observations, may be viable prey for the free-living coral
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