Tergipes tergipes
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| The nudibranch Tergipes tergipes, Gulen Dive Centre, Norway. | |
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
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| Species: | T. tergipes
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Tergipes tergipes is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Tergipedidae.[2]
Distribution
This species was described from Øresund, Denmark. It has been reported from the NE Atlantic from Iceland and Norway south to Portugal and in the Mediterranean Sea.[3] Reports of the same species from Brazil should be treated with caution.[4]
Description
The typical adult size of this species is 5-8 mm.[5]
Habitat
Tergipes tergipes feeds on hydroids of the genus Obelia, especially Obelia geniculata. It is very similar in size and spawn shape to Eubranchus exiguus which often occurs on the same blades of kelp.[3]
References
- ^ Niebuhr C. (ed.) (1775). Descriptiones animalium avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, vermium quae in itinere orientali observavit Petrus Forskål, prof. Haun., post mortem auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr. Hauniae [Copenhagen], Möller, pp. 1-19 + i-xxxiv + 1-164, 1 map. page(s): 99-100
- ^ Gofas, S. (2014). Tergipes tergipes (Forsskål in Niebuhr, 1775). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-01-31
- ^ a b Picton, B.E. & Morrow, C.C., 2010. Tergipes tergipes (Forsskål in Niebuhr, 1775). [In] Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland.
- ^ Rudman, W.B., 2000 (December 31). Tergipes tergipes (Forsskal, 1775). [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
- ^ Thompson, T.E. and Brown, G.H., 1984. Biology of Opisthobranch Molluscs, Volume II. The Ray Society. 229 pages 41 plates, 40 figures