Opisthobranch molluscs from the Chagos Archipelago, Central Indian Ocean
Author
Yonow, Nathalie
Author
Anderson, R. Charles
Author
Buttress, Susan G.
text
Journal of Natural History
2002
2002-05-31
36
7
831
882
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222930110039161
journal article
10.1080/00222930110039161
1464-5262
Aplysia
cf.
parvula
Guilding
in MoÈrch, 1863
(®gures 2d, 3a, b)
Aplysia fasciata
Poiret
: Yonow, 1994a: 104, ®gure 4G.
Aplysia
cf.
parvula
: Yonow, 2000: 94
, ®gure 3, pl. 7.
Material.
Chag96/18:
three specimens
approximately
10 mm
; outer reef of Ile de la Passe, Salomon Atoll;
12 February 1996
; at
19±20 m
depth.
Description.
Body dark brown, with grey margins to parapodia and grey tips to rhinophores and oral tentacles (®gure 2d). White stippling absent. Parapodia enlarged, upstanding and strongly undulated, originating separately anteriorly and meeting as a low rim on the tail. Rhinophores and oral tentacles large and erect.
The three preserved specimens are well relaxed; the rolled rhinophores and oral tentacles are visible, with black pigment remaining within the tubes. The eyes are visible on all specimens and there is dark brown pigment variably remaining as a dusty covering along the edge of the foot and its sole on all specimens, in wrinkles