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
30.
Taringa telopia
Er.
Marcus, 1955
(
Fig. 3O
)
Material examined:
Praia
de Areia Preta, Natal,
22.
VI
.2009
,
one specimen
,
18 mm
(body length), leg. F. Santos (
MZSP
97071).
Description:
Body flat, elliptical, yellowish notum with dark brown, small spots from the medial portion of the body to the margins of the notum. Rhinophores with whitish bases and light brown lamellae.Gills light brown. Head with eyes covered by edge of the mantle, bilobated labium. Lamellate retractile rhinophores.Body with small tubercles medially. Six folliculated, retractile, tripinnated gill leaves around the anus. Foot narrower than notum.
Geographic distribution:
Western Atlantic:
Colombia
,
Brazil
(
Alagoas
,
Pernambuco
,
Rio de Janeiro
,
Rio Grande do Norte
– present study,
São Paulo
) (
Bergh, 1894
; Er.
Marcus, 1955
; Ev. Marcus & Er.
Marcus, 1967a
;
Valdés & Gosliner, 2001
;
García
et al.,
2008
;
Padula
et al.,
2012
;
Alvim & Pimenta, 2013
).
Family
Dorididae Rafinesque, 1815