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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Eubranchus ocellatus (Alder & Hancock, 1864)
Figure 20F
Material examined.
One specimen
22 mm
, SN.
Ecology.
On its prey hydroid
Idiellana pristis
Lamouroux, 1816 rare in soft sediment habitats and absent from the coral reefs of Koh Tao. Depth 12-24 m.
Distribution.
Eubranchus ocellatus
is known from the Red Sea (
Yonow 2008
), Australia (
Nimbs and Smith 2016
), Tanzania, Philippines, Indonesia, and New Caledonia (
Gosliner et al. 2008
). Here representing a first record for Thai waters and a first record for the genus in the Gulf of Thailand.
Remarks.
It necessary here to clarify the brief historical records of
Eubranchidae
in Thai waters.
Chavanich et al. (2013)
recorded
Baeolidia japonica
Baba, 1933 from the Gulf of Thailand as a member of the
Eubranchidae
, which in fact belongs to the
Aeolidiidae
, as a representation of the first record of the family from Thai waters. Not mentioned in the same review, however, was the observation of
Eubranchus rubropunctatus
Edmunds, 1969 from the Andaman coast of Thailand (
Neal 2010
) which is believed to represent the first record of the family from Thai waters.