''Coryphellina marcusorum'', (Spanish common name: ''Eolidáceo de Marcus'')
is a
species of
sea slug, an aeolid
nudibranch, a
marine
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gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusc
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is esti ...
in the family
Flabellinidae.
Distribution
This species was described from
Isla San Diego
Isla San Diego is a small island in Mexico in the southern Gulf of California. Administratively it belongs to the municipality of Comondú of the State of Baja California Sur
Baja California Sur (; 'South Lower California'), officially the F ...
,
Baja California,
Mexico. ''Coryphellina marcusorum'' is thought to occur in two disjunct populations in the waters of central and south America: one group on the west coast of central America in the eastern Pacific Ocean
and as far east as the
Galapagos Islands and the other on the east side of the continent in the
Caribbean Sea and in the western Atlantic Ocean down to Brazil.
Description
''Coryphellina marcusorum'' has a mainly translucent pink or orange body colour.
The elongate rhinophores, foot corners and cerata are tipped with opaque white (or sometimes opaque yellow), with a broad, purple band beneath. The posterior face of the rhinophores may have up to one hundred papillae.
The oral tentacles are elongate and thin, and are longer than the rhinophores.
[Millen S. & Hermosillo A. (2007) The genus ''Flabellina'' Voight, 1834 (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia) from Bahia de Banderas (Pacific coast of Mexico) with ecological observations, the description of a new species, and the redescription of ''Flabellina cynara''. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences ser.4, 58(26): 543-559. page(s): 556]
The maximum recorded body length is 25 mm
[Welch J. J. (2010). "The “Island Rule” and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". '' PLoS ONE'' 5(1): e8776. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008776.] or up to 30 mm.
This species is very similar in colouration to the recently described African species ''
Coryphellina arveloi
''Coryphellina arveloi'' is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Flabellinidae
Flabellinidae is a taxonomic family of brightly coloured sea slugs, specifically nudibranchs, marine gastropo ...
''.
A comparison with other Flabellinidae species from Mexico is given in the description of ''
Orienthella fogata''.
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Habitat
Minimum recorded depth is 3 m.
References
External links
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Flabellinidae
Gastropods described in 1990