An updated inventory of sea slugs from Koh Tao, Thailand, with notes on their ecology and a dramatic biodiversity increase for Thai waters
Author
Mehrotra, Rahul
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
Author
A. Caballer Gutierrez, Manuel
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
Author
M. Scott, Chad
Conservation Diver. 7321 Timber Trail Road, Evergreen, Colorado, 80439, USA
Author
Arnold, Spencer
Conservation Diver. 7321 Timber Trail Road, Evergreen, Colorado, 80439, USA
Author
Monchanin, Coline
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
Author
Viyakarn, Voranop
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2089-6356
Reef Biology Research Group. Department of Marine Science, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand
Author
Chavanich, Suchana
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6266-7300
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
suchana.c@chula.ac.th
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1042.64474
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Goniobranchus cf. albonares (Rudman, 1990)
Figure 9L
Material examined.
Three specimens
4-6 mm
, CB.
Ecology.
Observed under dead fungiid coral skeletons and occasionally among rubble in shallow coral reef. Depth 3-8 m
Distribution.
Goniobranchus albonares
is known from Australia (
Rudman 1990
), Japan (
Gosliner et al. 2008
), Madagascar (
Rassat 2016
), and Mozambique (
Tibirica
et al. 2017
).
Remarks.
Externally resembling both
Goniobranchus albonares
(Rudman, 1990) and
Goniobranchus rubrocornutus
(Rudman, 1985), the present species differs from the former by possessing a broken submarginal band of deep red and from the latter by the presence of completely white rhinophore clubs and gills as opposed to red. There is significant overlap in the range of both species, with
G. rubrocornutus
known from Australia, Hong Kong, and Japan (
Rudman 1985
). A comprehensive comparison of the three species is needed.