Elysia subornata A.E. Verril, 1901

Delgado, Marlon, Freire, Fúlvio Aurélio de Morais, Meirelles, Carlos Augusto Oliveira de, Padula, Vinicius, Bahia, Juliana & Brandão, Simone Nunes, 2022, Sea slugs (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) from Rio Grande do Norte, Northeastern Brazil, Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 62, pp. 1-26 : 8

10. Elysia subornata A.E. Verril, 1901 ( Fig. 2J )

Material examined: Praia de Pirambúzios, Nísia Floresta , 21.VI.2009, one specimen, 14 mm (body length), leg. V. Padula ( MZSP 97050 ), 13.II.2010, five specimens, 1-3 mm (body length), leg. M. Delgado ( GEEFAA 310 ), 28.II.2010, two specimens, 4 mm (body length), phot. reg. M. Delgado ; 14.IV.2010, three specimens, 7-10 mm (body length),leg. M. Delgado ( GEEFAA 264 a). 07.IV.2011, two specimens, 8-19 mm (body length), leg. M. Delgado ( GEEFAA 282 ). 05.I.2012, one specimen (lost), 8 mm (body length). 27.IV.2013, five specimens, 2-10 mm (body length), phot. reg. M. Delgado .

Description: Elongated and cylindrical body. Background color light green, speckled with black dots all over the body. Head prominent with black eyes at the base of the rhinophores, which is oblique, elongated and curled. Rhinophores prostrate to the sides, with a groove on the anterior side between them. From the base to the apex lined with small light beige tubercles.On the back there is a visible and voluminous pericardium with tubercles over it.

Geographic distribution: Eastern Atlantic: Canary Islands, Cape Verde, Madeira, Savage Islands. Western Atlantic: Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Bonaire, Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, CuraÇao, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, Mexico, Puerto Rico, St. Martin / St. Maarten, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, St. Thomas, Trinidad & Tobago, USA, Venezuela, Virgin Islands, Brazil (Alagoas, Ceará, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Norte – present study, São Paulo) ( Marcus, 1957, as E. cauze ; Padula, 2008; Galvão-Filho et al., 2015).

Figures

Figure 2. Heterobranch sea slugs from Rio Grande do Norte. (A) Micromelo undatus (15 mm – GEEFAA 294); (B) Haminoea antillarum (2 mm – GEEFAA 344); (C)Camachoaglaja berolina(7 mm– GEEFAA270);(D)Chelidonurahirundinina(16mm– GEEFAA1320);(E)Navanaxgemmatus (40mm– MZSP97068);(F)Ascobulla ulla (7 mm – MZSP 97049); (G) Oxynoe antillarum (25 mm – GEEFAA 352); (H) Elysia canguzua (15 mm – GEEFAA 295); (I) Elysia pawliki (25 mm – MZSP 97061); (J) Elysia subornata (14 mm – MZSP 97050); (K) Thuridilla malaquita (15 mm – phot. reg.); (L) Caliphylla mediterranea (9 mm – GEEFAA 349); (M) Aplysia cervina (70mm – MZSP 97074); (N) Aplysia dactylomela (76 mm – MZSP 97073);(O) Bursatellaleachii (75 mm – GEEFAA 324).