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
Phyllidia multituberculata
Boettger, 1918
(®gure 16c)
Phyllidia multituberculata
Boettger
: Yonow, 1996: 487, ®gures 2, 3, 4B.
Material.
Chag96/29:
27 mm
; outer reef, Ile de la Passe, Salomon Atoll;
14 February 1996
; at
22 m
depth.
Description.
Bright orange, with seven white-edged black patches, three on each side and one anteriorly. Several black spots around periphery and two on midline. Dorsum with numerous orange tubercles, largest on midline and smallest near mantle edge. Rhinophores long, orange; anus on orange tubercle.
Geographic distribution.
Indian Ocean
:
Mauritius
and the
Seychelles
(and
one specimen
from
Indonesia
; Yonow, 1996)
.
Remarks.
This species has been recently re-established (Yonow, 1996) and the Chagos specimen is virtually identical to the one illustrated in her ®gure 2A from the
Seychelles
. This specimen from Salomon Atoll was found and photographed on a reddish orange sponge which had large osculae; on this substratum it appeared to be well camouāged.