Elysia sarasuae Ortea & Espinosa in Ortea, Moro, Caballer & Espinosa, 2011

Krug, Patrick J., Vendetti, Jann E. & Valdés, Ángel, 2016, Molecular and morphological systematics of Elysia Risso, 1818 (Heterobranchia: Sacoglossa) from the Caribbean region, Zootaxa 4148 (1), pp. 1-137 : 95

Elysia sarasuae Ortea & Espinosa in Ortea, Moro, Caballer & Espinosa, 2011

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Elysia sarasuae Ortea & Espinosa in Ortea, Moro, Caballer & Espinosa 2011: 206 , pl. 6 (Type locality: Playa de Rancho Luna, Cienfuegos, Cuba), nomen dubium.

Type material. Elysia sarasuae— holotype at IESH (no registration number provided).

Material examined. No specimens available.

Live animal. No specimens available.

External anatomy. Summarized from Ortea et al. (2011). Head orange anteriorly and snow white with white papillae posteriorly with orange sides. External sides of the parapodia dark green; internal sides also green but paler, with bright blue lines or stripes. Rhinophores wide, brown externally with a few white papillae distally. Parapodial borders straight, dark brown, with a few white papillae. Pericardium horseshoe shaped, orange. Dorsal vessels not described.

Internal anatomy. Not described by Ortea et al. (2011).

Reproduction and development. No data available.

Host ecology. No data available.

Phylogenetic relationships. No data available.

Range. Cuba (Ortea et al. 2011)

Remarks. This species is impossible to recognize from the description, which included only external characters, a sketch with no anatomical detail, and a low-resolution photograph of a tiny specimen. Although E. sarasuae was not compared to any other species in its description, the external anatomy as drawn looks very similar to E. zuleicae .