Rostanga pulchra

Rostanga pulchra
A live individual of Rostanga pulchra, head end towards the right
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
Superfamily: Doridoidea
Family: Discodorididae
Genus: Rostanga
Species: R. pulchra
Binomial name
Rostanga pulchra

Rostanga pulchra is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusk in the family Discodorididae.

Description

Size up to 30 mm in length.[2]

Habitat

Found intertidally under boulders and in shallow water, normally feeding on the sponge Ophlitaspongia pennata.[2]

References

  1. ↑ MacFarland, F. M. (1905) A preliminary account of the Dorididae of Monterey Bay, California. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 18: 35-54.
  2. 1 2 Rudman, W.B., 2002 (February 4) Rostanga pulchra MacFarland, 1905. [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/rostpulc

Further reading

  • Behrens, D. W. 1980. Pacific coast nudibranchs, a guide to the opisthobranchs of the northeastern Pacific, 112 pp., 162 photos. Sea Challengers, Los Osos, Calif.
  • Behrens, D. W. 1991. Pacific coast nudibranchs: a guide to the opisthobranchs, Alaska to Baja California, vi + 107 pp., 217 photos. Second Edition. Sea Challengers, Monterey, California.
  • Behrens, D. W. 2004. Pacific Coast Nudibranchs, Supplement II New species to the Pacific Coast and new information on the oldies. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 55(2):11–54.
  • Behrens, D. W. 2005. Nudibranch behavior, 176 pp. New World Publications, Inc., Jacksonville, Florida.
  • Behrens, D. W., & Alicia Hermosillo. 2005. Eastern Pacific nudibranch, a guide to the opisthobranchs from Alaska to Central America. vi + 137 pp., 314 photos. Sea Challengers, Monterey, California.
  • Camacho-Garcia, Y. E., T. M. Gosliner., & Á. Valdés. 2005. Guía de campo de las babosas marinas del Pacifica esto tropical / Field guide to the sea slugs of the tropical eastern Pacific. California Academy of Sciences, 129 pp.
  • Farmer, W. M. 1980. Sea-slug gastropods, 177 pp. W. M. Farmer Enterprises, Tempe, Arizona.
  • Guernsey, Mabel. 1912. Some of the Mollusca of Laguna Beach. First Annual Report of the Laguna Marine Laboratory, Laguna Beach, Orange County, California, Pomona College, pp. 68–82.
  • Hoffman, H. 1933. In: H. G. Bronns. Klassen und Ordnungen des Tierreichs wissenschaftlich dartgestellt in Wort und Bild. 3. Band: Mollusca (Weichtiere), II. Abteilung: Gastropoda, 3. Buch: Opisthobranchia, Teil. 1, 2 Lieferung, pp. 153–312, pl. 1.
  • Lamb, Andy, & Bernard P. Hanby. 2005. Marine Life of the Pacific northwest, a photographic encyclopedia of invertebrates, seaweeds and selected fishes, 398 pp. Harbour Publishing.
  • MacFarland, F. M. 1906. Opisthobranchiate Mollusca from Monterey Bay, California, and vicinity. Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Fisheries 25:109-151, pls. 18-31.
  • MacFarland, F. M. 1966. Studies of opisthobranchiate mollusks of the Pacific coast of North America. Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences 6:1-546, pls. 1-72.
  • Marcus, Er. 1959. Reports from the Lund University Chile Expedition 1948-49, No. 36. Lamellariacea und Opisthobranchia. Lunds Universitets Årsskrift (Ny Följd), Avd. 2, 55(9):1-133.
  • Marcus, Ev., & Er. Marcus. 1969a. Opisthobranchian and lamellarian gastropods collected by the "Vema". American Museum Natural History Novitates (2368):1-33.
  • McDonald, G. R. 1983. A review of the nudibranchs of the California coast. Malacologia 24(1-2):114-276.
  • McDonald, G. R., & J. W. Nybakken. 1980. Guide to the nudibranchs of California, including most species found from Alaska to Oregon, 72 pp., 112 photos. American Malacologists.
  • Muniain, C., & A. Valdés. 2000. Rostanga byga Er. Marcus, 1958 from Argentina: redescription and comparison to Rostanga pulchra MacFarland, 1905 (Mollusca, Nudibranchia, Doridina). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 52(1):1-10.
  • O'Donoghue, C. H. 1922. Notes on the nudibranchiate Mollusca from the Vancouver Island region. I. Colour variations. Transactions of the Royal Canadian Institute 14(1):123-130, pl. 2.
  • Rudman, W. B., & G. J. Avern. 1989. The genus Rostanga Bergh, 1879 (Nudibranchia: Dorididae) in the Indo-West Pacific. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 96(3):281-338.
  • Schrödl, Michael. 1996. Nudibranchia y Sacoglossa de Chile: morfologia externa y distribucion. Gayana Zoologia 60(1):17-62.
  • Schrödl, M . 2003. Sea slugs of southern South America, 165 pp. ConchBooks.
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