Sea slugs (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) from Rio Grande do Norte, Northeastern Brazil
Author
Delgado, Marlon
Author
Freire, Fúlvio Aurélio de Morais
Author
Meirelles, Carlos Augusto Oliveira de
Author
Padula, Vinicius
Author
Bahia, Juliana
Author
Brandão, Simone Nunes
text
Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia
2022
2022-11-01
62
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/1807-0205/2022.62.063
journal article
10.11606/1807-0205/2022.62.063
1807-0205
7617672
29.
Taringa iemanja
Alvim & Pimenta, 2013
(
Fig. 3N
)
Material examined:
Praia
de
Baia
Formosa
,
Baia
Formosa
,
05.VII.2009
,
two specimens
,
24-25 mm
(body length), leg.
F. Santos
(
MZSP 97062
;
GEEFAA 337
)
.
Geographic distribution:
Western Atlantic:
Brazil
(
Rio de Janeiro
,
Rio Grande do Norte
– present study) (
Alvim & Pimenta, 2013
).
Description:
Body flat,elliptical,dorsally dark brown with oval-shaped, dark brown spot. Ventrally, light brown notum and foot with oval-shaped,small spots. Rhinophores and gills light brown with small, irregular-shaped, dark brown spots. Bilobated labium. Lamellated, retractile rhinophores within a basal projection. Body with smallsized, rounded tubercles medially. Seven folliculated, retractile, tripinnated gill leaves around the anus. Foot smooth, narrower than and covered by the notum.
Remarks:
First record from northeastern
Brazil
.