WoRMS taxon details
Ceratosoma tenue Abraham, 1876
AphiaID: 212893
AphiaID: 212893
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Heterobranchia (Subclass) > Opisthobranchia (Infraclass) > Nudibranchia (Order) > Euctenidiacea (Suborder) > Doridacea (Infraorder) > Doridoidea (Superfamily) > Chromodorididae (Family) > Ceratosoma (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Ceratosoma Adams & Reeve, 1850 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Ceratosoma bicorne Bergh, 1905 Ceratosoma francoisi Rochebrune, 1894 Ceratosoma jousseaumi Rochebrune, 1894 Ceratosoma ornatum Bergh, 1890 Ceratosoma rhopalicum Rochebrune, 1894 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Rudman W.B. (1988). The Chromodorididae (Ophistobranchia: Mollusca) of the Indo-West Pacific: the genus Ceratosoma J.E. Gray. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 93 (1): 133-185. [details] additional source: Gosliner, T.M., Behrens, D.W. & Valdés, Á. (2008) Indo-Pacific Nudibranchs and seaslugs. A field guide to the world's most diverse fauna. Sea Challengers Natural History Books, Washington, 426 pp. page(s): 274 [details] additional source: Debelius, H. & Kuiter, R.H. (2007) Nudibranchs of the world. ConchBooks, Frankfurt, 360 pp. ISBN: 978-3-939767-06-0 page(s): 98 [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] from synonym: Rudman W.B. (1984) The Chromodorididae (Opisthobranchia: Mollusca) of the Indo-West Pacific: a review of the genera. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 81 (2/3): 115-273. page(s): 201 [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Rochebrune A.T. (1894). Diagnoses de nouvelles appartenant au genere Ceratosoma. Le Naturaliste 2 (16): 55. page(s): 185 [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Red Sea [details] Tanzania [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins) To Sea Slug Forum (via archive.org) Note: Down, image D: same photo as in Rudman (1988). | |||||||||||||
| Note |
Description: 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 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Caballer, M. (2013). Ceratosoma tenue Abraham, 1876. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=212893 on 2013-05-25 | ||||||||||||||
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