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
1
26
http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/1807-0205/2022.62.063
journal article
10.11606/1807-0205/2022.62.063
1807-0205
7617672
10.
Elysia subornata
A.E. Verril, 1901
(
Fig. 2J
)
Material examined:
Praia
de Pirambúzios
,
Nísia Floresta
,
21.VI.2009
,
one specimen
,
14 mm
(body length), leg.
V
.
Padula
(
MZSP 97050
),
13.II.2010
,
five specimens
,
1-3 mm
(body length), leg.
M. Delgado
(
GEEFAA 310
),
28.II.2010
,
two specimens
,
4 mm
(body length), phot. reg.
M. Delgado
;
14.IV.2010
,
three specimens
,
7-10 mm
(body length),leg.
M. Delgado
(
GEEFAA 264
a).
07.IV.2011
,
two specimens
,
8-19 mm
(body length), leg.
M. Delgado
(
GEEFAA 282
).
05.I.2012
,
one specimen
(lost),
8 mm
(body length).
27.IV.2013
,
five specimens
,
2-10 mm
(body length), phot. reg.
M. Delgado
.
Description:
Elongated and cylindrical body. Background color light green, speckled with black dots all over the body. Head prominent with black eyes at the base of the rhinophores, which is oblique, elongated and curled. Rhinophores prostrate to the sides, with a groove on the anterior side between them. From the base to the apex lined with small light beige tubercles.On the back there is a visible and voluminous pericardium with tubercles over it.
Geographic distribution:
Eastern Atlantic: Canary Islands,
Cape Verde
, Madeira, Savage Islands. Western Atlantic:
Aruba
,
Bahamas
,
Barbados
,
Belize
,
Bermuda
,
Bonaire
,
Cayman Islands
,
Costa Rica
,
CuraÇao
,
Guadeloupe
,
Jamaica
,
Martinique
,
Mexico
,
Puerto Rico
,
St. Martin
/
St. Maarten
,
St. Vincent & the Grenadines
, St. Thomas,
Trinidad & Tobago
,
USA
,
Venezuela
,
Virgin Islands
,
Brazil
(
Alagoas
,
Ceará
,
Rio de Janeiro
,
Rio Grande do Norte
– present study,
São Paulo
) (
Marcus, 1957
, as
E. cauze
;
Padula, 2008
;
Galvão-Filho
et al.,
2015
).