Morphological description and DNA barcode information of seven newly reported nudibranch species from Korea
Author
Lee, Yucheol
Marine Research Center, National Park Research Institute, Korea National Park Service, Yeosu 59723, Republic of Korea
Author
Nam, Eunjung
Exhibition and Education Division, National Institute of Biological Resources, Incheon 22689, Republic of Korea
Author
Park, Hyun-Jong Kil and Joong-Ki
text
Journal of Species Research
2022
11
2
102
107
journal article
10.12651/JSR.2022.11.2.102
2713-8615
13139953
4.
Antiopella fusca
(O’Donoghue, 1924)
(
Figs. 1D
)
ũNjfflẖš갯ḏệj
Janolus fuscus
O’Donoghue, 1924
;
Chichvarkhin
et al.
, 2016: 24
, figs. 2, 3.
Antiopella fusca
: Pola
et al.
, 2018: 363, 364, fig. 10;
Kil
et al.
, 2020: 130
, 131.
Material examined.
1 individual (MO00178871):
Munamjin-ri
,
Jugwang-myeon
,
Goseong-gun
,
Gangwon-do
,
Korea
,
38°18′04.04″N
,
128°34′10.08″E
,
05 May 2021
;
1 individual (
NIBRIV0000811823
):
Gangmun-dong
,
Gangneung-si
,
Gangwon-do
,
Korea
,
38°49′22.35″N
,
128°57′ 46.55″E
,
27 April 2017
.
Diagnosis.
Body elongate, ovate (length
30 mm
, width
16 mm
), ground color translucent white to light yellow. Rhinophoral clubs lamellate, stalks smooth. Oral tentacles short, triangular in shape. Dorsal cerata fusiform, with an orange or yellow band and a white pointed tip. Digestive gland in cerata straight, brown to black in color. Metapodium elongate, pointed posteriorly.
GenBank accession number.
OK143206.
Distribution.
Korea, North
America (Alaska to central California),
Japan
,
Russia
.
Remarks.
The genus
Antiopella
includes eight taxonomically valid species (
WoRMS, 2021
). This species is similar to
A. barbarensis
in external morphology, but distinguished by the color pattern of ceratal tip: In
A. fusca
, the cerata have an orange or yellow band with a white terminal tip, whereas
A. barbarensis
have cerata with sky blue-colored tips. The
Antiopella
species
are found in inter- and shallow subtidal waters feeding on bryozoans. The occurrence of this species from Korean waters (East Sea) was firstly reported in 2006 (
Koh, 2006
), but this study provides detailed information on external morphology, and molecular data of DNA barcode sequences.