Felimare fregona

Felimare fregona
Dorsal view of Felimare fregona.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Euctenidiacea
clade Doridacea
Superfamily: Doridoidea
Family: Chromodorididae
Genus: Felimare
Species: F. fregona
Binomial name
Felimare fregona
(Ortea & Caballer, 2013)[1]
Synonyms

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

It feeds on a blue sponge.[3]

References

This article incorporates Creative Commons (CC-BY-4.0) text from the reference[3]

  1. 1 2 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).
  2. ↑ 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
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 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
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