Caloria indica ( Bergh, 1896 )

Tibiriçá, Yara, Pola, Marta & Cervera, Juan Lucas, 2017, Astonishing diversity revealed: an annotated and illustrated inventory of Nudipleura (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) from Mozambique, Zootaxa 4359 (1), pp. 1-133 : 108

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4359.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:8D06174D-B19F-4B5C-B9B0-DA74E6D43C75

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6026400

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EB87A2-FFBB-FFEF-9790-FADAFEF2F84C

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scientific name

Caloria indica ( Bergh, 1896 )
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Caloria indica ( Bergh, 1896) View in CoL

( Figure 34 D–E View FIGURE 34 )

Material examined. Ten specimens. MB28-004534, ZSC, 14 May 2012, 22m, 10mm; MB28-004581, ZRP, 19 Jun. 2012, 1m, 20mm, collected by A. Roseblum; MB28-004583, ZRP, 20 Jun. 2012, 1m, 14mm; MB28-004585, ZRP, 20 Jun. 2012, 1m, 29mm; MB28-0 0 4690, ZGWS, 25 Jun. 2013, 20m, 12mm. MHN-YT1175, POA, 0 7 May 2014, 15m, 7mm; MB28-004832, POB, 0 8 May 2014, 18m, 17mm; MB28-0 0 4976 & MB28-004978, 23 Feb. 2015, ZRP, 0.5m, both 7mm; MB28-004994, ZRP, 0 5 May 2015, 0.3m, 12mm.

Habitats. Subtropical tidal reefs and rocky reefs.

Occurrences. Ponta do Ouro and Zavora.

Geographic distribution. Indo-west, central Pacific. Hawaii, Japan, Australia, Indonesia ( Gosliner 1987), Fiji, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Christmas Island, Oman, Seychelles (Gosliner et al. 2008), Tanzania, South Africa ( Gosliner 1987) and Mozambique.

Remarks. The colour is variable. The dorsum ranged from translucent white to dark orange. The rhinophores in one morphotype have an orange base, yellow middle and orange top and in another, orange base bluish middle and yellow top.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Nudibranchia

Family

Facelinidae

Genus

Caloria

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