Eubranchus vittatus
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
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| Species: | E. vittatus
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Eubranchus vittatus is a species of sea slug or nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Eubranchidae.[2]
Description
(Original description) The colour of the slender body of the snail is pale buff speckled with fawn-colour. Its head is rather large and truncated in front. The dorsal tentaculaare slightly conical, wrinkled, fawn-coloured, with pale tips. The oral tentacula are rather shorter than the dorsal ones and of the same colour. The branchiae are somewhat clavate, long, with obtuse terminations, very pale fawn-coloured, with three darker bands of the same colour. They are set in six or seven distant rows down the sides, largest in front, four to seven in each row. [1]
Distribution
This species was described from deep water, off Cullercoats, England.[1] It is considered to be synonymous with Eubranchus cingulatus by most authors and has been reported from the Atlantic coasts of Europe from Norway south to Galicia, Spain.[3][4]
References
- ^ a b c Alder J. & Hancock A. (1842). Descriptions of several new species of nudibranchous mollusca found on the coast of Northumberland. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9: 31-36.
- ^ Caballer, M.; Gofas, S. (2015). Eubranchus vittatus (Alder & Hancock, 1842). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-01-03.
- ^ Rudman, W.B., 2005 (January 5) Eubranchus vittatus (Alder & Hancock, 1842). [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
- ^ Picton, B.E. & Morrow, C.C. (2015). Eubranchus vittatus (Alder & Hancock, 1842). [In] Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland. Accessed on 2016-01-03
- Picton B.E. & Morrow C.C., 1994: A Field Guide to the Nudibranchs of the British Isles; Immel Publishing LtId., London.
- Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels. 50: pp. 180-213