Hypselodoris infucata ( Rüppell & Leuckart, 1830 )

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 : 34

Hypselodoris infucata ( Rüppell & Leuckart, 1830)

( Figure 10 C–D )

Material examined. Eight specimens. MHN-YT89, 10 Dec. 2011, ZRP, 1m, 22mm; MB28-00 4462, 0 6 Feb. 2012, ZRP, 1m, 27mm; MB28-0 0 4470, 0 7 Feb. 2012, ZRP, 2m, 20mm; ZMBN117030, ZRP, 18 Jun. 2012, 1m, 20mm; ZMBN119698, ZRP, 0 5 May 2012, 0.3m, 14mm; MB28-004463, ZRP, 0 6 Feb. 2012, 2m, 19mm; MB28-004486, ZGWN, 19 Feb. 2012, 25m, 16mm; ZMBN117 0 21, ZGWN, 18 Feb. 2012, 25m, 24mm; MB28-0 0 5084, ZRP, 0 7 Feb. 2012, 2m, 34mm.

Habitats. Subtropical tidal reefs, rocky reefs and topical coral reefs.

Occurrences. Ponto do Ouro, Zavora and Nuarro.

Geographic distribution. Indo-west, central Pacific. Introduced in the Mediterranean via Suez Canal (Gosliner et al. 2008). Hawaii ( Gosliner & Johnson 1999; Gosliner et al. 2008), Guam ( Carlson & Hoff 2003), Japan, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia (Gosliner et al. 2008), Australia, Philippines, Oman ( Debelius 1996), Thailand ( Mehrotra & Scott 2015), India ( Apte 2009), Red Sea, Madagascar (Gosliner et al. 2008), Tanzania ( Edmunds 1971), South Africa ( Gosliner 1987; Debelius 1996) and Mozambique.

Remarks. In all the specimens found in Mozambique the middle dorsum was yellowish/blue. Gosliner et al. 2008 considered a specimen with a dark blue dorsum as H. infucata (pg. 264), but in Gosliner et al. (2015) a similar specimen is cited as undescribed (pg. 258 as Hypselodoris sp. 7).

Figures

FIGURE 10. A, Hypselodoris fucata (MB28-004792). B, Hypselodoris ghardaqana (MB28-004944). C–D, Hypselodoris infucata (MB28-004470 and MB28-005084). E, Hypselodoris kanga (MB28-004536). F–I, Hypselodoris maculosa (MB28- 004714, MB28-005022, MHN-YT1054 and MB28-004902, respectively). J, Hypselodoris maridadilus (MB28-004860). K, Hypselodoris nigrolineata (MB28-005007).L, Hypselodoris nigrostriata (MB28-005085).