Opisthobranch molluscs from the Chagos Archipelago, Central Indian Ocean
Author
Yonow, Nathalie
Author
Anderson, R. Charles
Author
Buttress, Susan G.
text
Journal of Natural History
2002
2002-05-31
36
7
831
882
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222930110039161
journal article
10.1080/00222930110039161
1464-5262
Fryeria marindica
(Yonow and Hayward, 1991)
(®gure 16a)
Reyfria marindica
Yonow and Hayward, 1991: 23
, ®gures 10C, D, 13E.
Fryeria marindica
:
Brunckhorst, 1993: 45
, pl. 5B, C; Yonow, 1996: 509, ®gure 13A±F.
Material.
Chag96/24a, b:
24 mm
,
18 mm
; outer reef between Ile Boddam and Ile Poule, Salomon Atoll;
13 February 1996
; at
10 m
depth. Chag96/27:
24 mm
; coral bommie inside Salomon Atoll;
13 February 1996
; at
12 m
depth.
(a) (b)
(c) (d)
(e) (f)
FIG. 16. (a).
Fryeria marindica
Chag
96/27: 24 mm. (b)
Phyllidia coelestis
Chag
96/43b: 28 mm. (c)
Phyllidia multituberculata
Chag
96/29: 27 mm. (d)
Phyllidiella meandrina
Chag
96/35: 18 mm. (e)
Phyllidiella rosans
Chag
96/48: 15 mm. (f)
Phyllidiella striata
Chag
96/2: 35 mm.
Description.
Ground colour pale blue. Raised median ridge with orange tubercles; orange tubercles almost continuous in smallest specimen; interrupted in two places by the joining of the two longitudinal black stripes in specimen 96/27. Two black stripes, one on either side of median ridge, with ®ve to seven rays extended to the mantle edge; additional black streaks between these rays. Rhinophores yellow.
Geographic distribution.
Indian Ocean: from
Mauritius
to Western Australia (Yonow, 1996).