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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCeratosoma tenue Abraham, 1876 
AphiaID: 212893

Classification: Biota > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnimalia (Kingdom) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMollusca (Phylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorGastropoda (Class) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorHeterobranchia (Subclass) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOpisthobranchia (Infraclass) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorNudibranchia (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorEuctenidiacea (Suborder) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorDoridacea (Infraorder) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorDoridoidea (Superfamily) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorChromodorididae (Family) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCeratosoma (Genus)
Status accepted
Rank Species
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCeratosoma Adams & Reeve, 1850
Synonymised
names		  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCeratosoma bicorne Bergh, 1905
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCeratosoma francoisi Rochebrune, 1894
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCeratosoma jousseaumi Rochebrune, 1894
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCeratosoma ornatum Bergh, 1890
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCeratosoma rhopalicum Rochebrune, 1894
Sources  original description Abraham P.S. (1876) Notes on some genera of nudibranchiate Mollusca, with notices of a new genus and some hitherto undescribed species, in the collection of the British Museum. Annals & Magazine of Natural History (4)18: 132-146, pls. 6-7., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15925135/#page/146/mode/1up
page(s): 141-142, Plate VII, Figures 5, 5 a-b [details]

status source 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(4): e33479., available online at http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0033479 [details]

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Environment marine, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution 
From other sources
Red Sea
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorRed Sea [details]
Tanzania
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTanzania [details]
Links Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Barcode of Life 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Encyclopedia of Life 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Sea Slug Forum (via archive.org)  Note: Down, image D: same photo as in Rudman (1988). 
Note 
From other sources
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorDescription Up to 7 cm long (W Indian Ocean specimens). A distinctive species with obvious, enlarged dorsal protuberances on the mantle which contain a concentration of defensive glands. These are prominent to lure predators away from the vital gills and rhinophores, and are a distinguishing feature of the genus. Colour pinky orange with yellow spots, occassionally olive-green, always with violet margins. Habitat: diverse, among shallow coral reefs. Distribution: W Indian Ocean, Red Sea to W Pacific Ocean. In the region C. tenue often coexists with C. trilobatum (Richmond, 1997).
Distribution: also known from South-East Asia and tropical Australia (Rudman, 1988). [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212893
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1998-09-02 09:02:48Z  created  Onyango, Eunice
2000-07-18 15:57:33Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2011-02-21 08:54:00Z  changed  Caballer, Manuel
  
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  Citation: Caballer, M. (2014). Ceratosoma tenue Abraham, 1876. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=212893 on 2014-04-20
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