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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Gymnodoris ceylonica (Kelaart, 1858)
Figure 15G
Material examined.
Two specimen
35 mm
, TB.
Ecology.
Exclusively recorded from soft sediment habitats beyond the fringing coral reef. Depth 14 m.
Distribution.
Widespread in the Indo-Pacific including Mozambique (
Tibirica
et al. 2017
), the Red Sea (
Yonow 1990
), Indonesia (
Debelius 1996
), India (
Apte 2009
), Taiwan (
Huang et al. 2015
), Singapore (
Lim and Chou 1970
),
Reunion
Island, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Japan, Papua New Guinea, Australia, Guam, Marshall Islands (
Gosliner et al. 2008
), and known from both Andaman and Gulf waters of Thailand (
Chavanich et al. 2013
;
Mehrotra and Scott 2016
).