Roboastra gracilis (Bergh, 1877)

Yonow, Nathalie, 2012, Opisthobranchs from the western Indian Ocean, with descriptions of two new species and ten new records (Mollusca, Gastropoda), ZooKeys 197, pp. 1-130 : 18

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.197.1728

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scientific name

Roboastra gracilis (Bergh, 1877)
status

 

Roboastra gracilis (Bergh, 1877) Plate 22

Roboastra gracilis . - Gosliner 1987: 101, fig. 185 (South Africa); Yonow 1994a: 109, fig. 6F (Maldives); Gosliner et al. 2008: 122 (South Africa, Mozambique, Saudi Arabia, and Maldives + Pacific).

Material.

Maldives: 8 mm (6 mm pres.), Fulidhoo Channel, Felidhoo Atoll, 12 m depth, 24 July 1994, leg. RC Anderson & SG Buttress; photographs of two individuals 12 mm and 20 mm, March 1999, J Hinterkircher. - Tanzania: photographs of a single individual, M’Nazi Bay, Msimbati, near Mtwara, May 1994, IM Horsfall. - La Réunion: several individuals photographed up to 18 mm in length (http://seaslugs.free.fr/nudibranche/a_intro.htm).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Nudibranchia

Family

Polyceridae

Genus

Roboastra