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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Dendrodoris tuberculosa (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832)
Figure 14H
Material examined.
Two specimens
24-88 mm
, TT.
Ecology.
Found in soft sediment habitats outside the coral reef alongside
D. krusensternii
. Incorrectly classified as a coral reef-associated species from Koh Tao (
Mehrotra and Scott 2016
) based on a single observation in shallower waters nearer the coral reef.
Distribution.
Widespread in the Indo-Pacific including the Red Sea (
Yonow 2008
), Tanzania, South Africa, Maldives, Malaysia, Philippines, Korea, Papua New Guinea, Australia, Solomon Islands, Marshall Islands (
Gosliner et al. 2008
), Mozambique (
Tibirica
et al. 2017
), India (
Apte 2009
), Chagos (
Yonow et al. 2002
), Vietnam (
Risbec 1956
), Japan (
Baba 1949
), Hawaii (
Kay and Young 1969
), and known from both Andaman and Gulf waters of Thailand (
Chavanich et al. 2013
;
Mehrotra and Scott 2016
).