Felimare fregona
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| Dorsal view of Felimare fregona. | |
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
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| Species: | F. fregona
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| Felimare fregona (Ortea & Caballer, 2013)[1]
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Hypselodoris fregona Ortea & Caballer, 2013 | |
Felimare fregona is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chromodorididae.
Taxonomy
This species was described under the name Hypselodoris fregona from the Caribbean Sea in 2013.[1] However Johnson & Gosliner transferred all eastern Pacific, Atlantic and Mediterranean species of Hypselodoris to the genus Felimare already in 2012.[2][3]
Distribution
Distribution of Felimare fregona includes Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Curaçao, Guadeloupe and Panama.[3] It was described from Guadeloupe.[3]
Description
The body is elongate, narrow, with the posterior portion of foot extending beyond the mantle margin.[3] Background color is white with irregular shades of pale blue and gray.[3] Dorsum is with three longitudinal yellow lines.[3] Mantle margin is edged by an opaque white line with a narrow submarginal band of yellow and a series of black circular spots.[3] Rhinophores are white with a purple longitudinal line up from the base.[3] It is up to 40 mm long.[3]
Ecology
References
This article incorporates Creative Commons (CC-BY-4.0) text from the reference[3]
- ^ a b Ortea J., Espinosa J., Buske Y. & Caballer M. (2013). "Additions to the inventory of the sea slugs (Opisthobranchia and Sacoglossa) from Guadeloupe (Lesser Antilles, Caribbean Sea)". Revista de la Academia Canaria de Ciencias 25: 163-194. (Dated "December 2013"; distributed November 2013).
- ^ Johnson R. F & Gosliner T. M. (2012). "Traditional taxonomic groupings mask evolutionary history: A molecular phylogeny and new classification of the chromodorid nudibranchs". PLoS One 7: e33479. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0033479
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Goodheart J. A., Ellingson R. A., Vital X. G., Galvão Filho H. C., McCarthy J. B., Medrano S. M., Bhave V. J., García-Méndez K., Jiménez L. M., López G. & Hoover C. A. (2016). "Identification guide to the heterobranch sea slugs (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from Bocas del Toro, Panama". Marine Biodiversity Records 9(1): 56. doi:10.1186/s41200-016-0048-z