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

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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).