Flabellina engeli

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Flabellina engeli
The nudibranch Flabellina engeli lucianae, Cabo Frio, Brazil.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade

Nudibranchia

clade Dexiarchia
clade Cladobranchia

clade Aeolidida
Superfamily:
Flabellinoidea
Family:
Flabellinidae
Genus:
Flabellina
Species:
F. engeli
Binomial name
Flabellina engeli
Er. Marcus, 1968[1]

Flabellina engeli is a

mollusc in the family Flabellinidae.[2]

Subspecies

A subspecies has been described from colder water in Brazil as Flabellina engeli lucianae Dacosta, Cunha, Simone & Schrödl, 2007.[3]

Distribution

This species was described from Curaçao. It has been reported from Tobago, Florida,[4] Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela, Barbados, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Curaçao, St. Lucia, Martinique, Granada, Brazil and Panama.[5]

Description

dorsal view of Flabellina engeli

Body is elongate, narrowing posteriorly.

Rhinophores are lamellate, club-shaped and with white bands.[5] Cerata are arranged into clusters in two rows along the dorsum.[5] Background color is translucent gray with thick white or yellow patches running between the cerata clusters, on the margin of the dorsum.[5] A submarginal row of opaque white spots present along the sides of the body.[5] Three white or yellow patches are on the head.[5] Oral tentacles are long, translucent and white at the tips.[5] Cerata are translucent with a brown or orange band about a third of the way down from the tip.[5] The maximum recorded body length is 25 mm.[5][6]

Ecology

One specimen was found on a living blade of sea grass in 1 m of water in Panama.[5] Minimum recorded depth is 1 m.[6] Maximum recorded depth is 2 m.[6]

References

This article incorporates Creative Commons (CC-BY-4.0) text from the reference[5]

  1. ^ Marcus Ev. & Marcus Er. (1968). "Flabellina engeli, a new nudibranch from Curaçao". Beaufortia, Zoological Museum Univ. Amsterdam, 15: 139-142.
  2. ^ Bouchet, P. (2015). Flabellina engeli Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1968. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-10-26
  3. doi:10.1093/mollus/eym035
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  4. ^ Rudman W. B. (2001, October 8). Flabellina engeli Marcus & Marcus, 1968. Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
  5. ^
    doi:10.1186/s41200-016-0048-z
  6. ^
    PLoS ONE 5(1): e8776. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008776
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