Halgerda carlsoni
| Halgerda carlsoni | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Doridoidea |
| Family: | Discodorididae |
| Genus: | Halgerda |
| Species: | H. carlsoni |
| Binomial name | |
| Halgerda carlsoni Rudman, 1978[1] | |
Halgerda carlsoni is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, shell-less marine gastropod mollusks in the family Discodorididae.[2]
Description
This animal is one of a group of mainly white species of Halgerda with orange markings. This species can be more than 5 cm in length. Its body is massive, stocky and has no skirt, that means that the mantle and the foot are one. The body is covered with tubercles of various sizes whose top is orange to red with a white rimmed at the base. The background body color is translucent white with dense punctuation of very small red-orange dots. The mantle edge is trimmed with small tubercles tipped with orange to red dots. Rhinophores and gills are retractable, translucent and speckled with dark spots.
Distribution
This species was described from New Caledonia. It has subsequently been reported from Fiji, Tonga, Sulawesi, the Philippines, Malaysia, Tanzania, Madagascar and South Africa.[3]
References
- ↑ Rudman W. B. (1978). "The dorid opisthobranch genera Halgerda and Sclerodoris Eliot from the Indo-West Pacific". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 62: 59-88.
- ↑ Dayrat B. 2010. A monographic revision of discodorid sea slugs (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia, Nudibranchia, Doridina). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Series 4, vol. 61, suppl. I, 1-403, 382 figs.
- ↑ Rudman, W.B., 1999 (February 4) Halgerda carlsoni Rudman, 1978. [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
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