Sea slug night fever: 39 new records of elusive heterobranchs in the western Mediterranean (Mollusca: Gastropoda)
Author
Salvador, Xavier
0000-0003-3039-7566
Author
Fernández-Vilert, Robert
0000-0002-2812-4414
Author
Moles, Juan
0000-0003-4511-4055
text
Journal of Natural History
2022
2022-05-18
56
5 - 8
265
310
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2022.2040630
journal article
10.1080/00222933.2022.2040630
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Pneumodermopsis canephora
Pruvot-Fol, 1924
(
Figure 5
(d))
Material examined
Montiel
,
Tamariu
(
Spain
),
41°54
ʹ
55.9”N
,
3°12
ʹ
46.3”E
,
13 February 2019
,
1 m
depth
, 9 spcs, adults,
L =
7–10 mm
; Montiel,
Tamariu (
Spain
),
41°54
ʹ
55.9”N
,
3°12
ʹ
46.3”E
,
12 March 2021
,
3 m
depth
, 1 spc., adult,
L =
5 mm
;
Cala Sa Tuna
,
41°57
ʹ
38”N
,
3°13
ʹ
52”E
,
31 March 2021
,
1 m
depth
, 2 spcs, juvenile and adult,
L =
2–10 mm
.
External morphology
Body rounded, transparent, with numerous glands, dark chromatophores can be seen by transparency all over body. Lateral gill extremely long, posterior gill absent. Posterior end with two ciliated bands. Head with two apical tentacles.
Ecology
Found in open waters close to the surface and with other pteropods and pelagic salps.
Distribution
North Atlantic (
OBIS 2021
); Mediterranean Sea (
Pruvot-Fol 1924
); this is the first report of this gastropod from the
Catalan
coast (
Spain
).
Remarks
Mostly found in
North Atlantic
waters (
Pruvot-Fol 1924
)
. Of the
eight specimens
collected and housed alive in the same container, two disappeared along with some other species of pteropods, likely indicating that in stressful situations this species may be cannibalistic.
Order
RUNCINIDA
Family
RUNCINIDEA H. Adams and A. Adams, 1854
Genus
Runcina
Forbes
[in Forbes and Hanley], 1851