Stylocheilus striatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832)

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

Stylocheilus striatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832) Figure 8I

Material examined.

One specimen 25 mm, SRB; one specimen 22 mm, CB; one specimen 29 mm, TT.

Ecology.

From shallow and deep soft sediment habitats grazing of mats of cyanobacteria on the benthos. Depth 1-18 m.

Distribution.

Circumtropical including Brazil ( Galvão Filho et al. 2015), Mexico ( Ortigosa et al. 2015), Guadeloupe ( Ortea Rato et al. 2012), the Azores ( Malaquias et al. 2009), Mozambique ( Jochum and Favre 2017), India ( Apte 2009), Vietnam ( Martynov and Korshunova 2012), Indonesia ( Eisenbarth et al. 2018), Australia ( Nimbs and Smith 2016), French Polynesia ( Horwitz et al. 2017), Fiji ( Thaman et al. 2017), the Caribbean, Galapagos, South Africa, Red Sea, Hawaii and California ( Gosliner et al. 2008). Documented from the Gulf of Thailand ( Mehrotra and Scott 2016), and from Andaman Sea (as S. longicauda ) by Jensen (1998).

Figures

Figure 8. A Migaya sp. 3 mm B Siphopteron makisig 3 mm C Siphopteron sp. 3 mm (photograph by Will Malsukum) D Philine orca 3 mm E Aplysia kurodai 30 mm (photograph by Geoffrey Chamayou) F Aplysia nigrocincta 9 mm G Bursatella cf. ocelligera 65 mm (photograph by Elouise Haskin) H Stylocheilus longicauda 45 mm (photograph by Kirsty Magson) I Stylocheilus striatus 29 mm J Berthella cf. caledonica 10 mm K Berthella martensi 60 mm (photograph by Paddy Steele) L Pleurobranchus forskalii 130 mm (photograph by Tine Kvamme).