Diversidoris crocea (Rudman, 1986)

Mehrotra, Rahul, A. Caballer Gutierrez, Manuel, M. Scott, Chad, Arnold, Spencer, Monchanin, Coline, Viyakarn, Voranop & Chavanich, Suchana, 2021, An updated inventory of sea slugs from Koh Tao, Thailand, with notes on their ecology and a dramatic biodiversity increase for Thai waters, ZooKeys 1042, pp. 73-188 : 73

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1042.64474

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

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scientific name

Diversidoris crocea (Rudman, 1986)
status

 

Diversidoris crocea (Rudman, 1986) View in CoL Figure 9I View Figure 9

Material examined.

One specimen 8 mm, TT.

Ecology. Coral reef habitats. Usually cryptic on its sponge, a yellow Darwinella sp. ( Rudman 2005a).

Distribution. Widespread throughout the Indo-Pacific including Mozambique ( Tibiriçá et al. 2017), Philippines, Indonesia, Japan, Papua New Guinea ( Gosliner et al. 2008), Guam ( Carlson and Hoff 2003), and Australia ( Rudman 1986). First documented from the Gulf of Thailand by Mehrotra and Scott (2016).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

SubClass

Heterobranchia

Order

Nudibranchia

SubOrder

Doridina

SuperFamily

Doridoidea

Family

Chromodorididae

Genus

Diversidoris