Phyllidia rueppelii ( Bergh, 1869 )

Papu, Adelfia, Bogdanov, AleXander, Bara, Robert, Kehraus, Stefan, König, Gabriele M., YonoW, Nathalie & Wägele, Heike, 2022, Phyllidiidae (Nudibranchia, Heterobranchia, Gastropoda): an integrative taxonomic approach including chemical analyses, Organisms Diversity & Evolution (New York, N. Y.) 22 (3), pp. 585-629 : 597

Phyllidia rueppelii ( Bergh, 1869)

The two clades of Phyllidia picta group in an unresolved relationship with a single available sequence (AF430358) assigned to Phyllidia rueppelii from Valdés (2003; 16S gene only) ( Figs. 15 , S 1 ). This species is only known from the Red Sea and Gulf of Oman ( Valdés, 2003; Yonow, 2020), but its identity has been confused with P. schupporum occurring in the same geographical range (see Yonow, 2020). Like P. picta , P. rueppelii has a ventral anal opening but differs in having a yellow-orange margin to the mantle and thus can be easily confused with P. schupporum . Unfortunately, no CO1 sequence was available for this Red Sea specimen, nor can we confirm correct identification by photograph (Á. Valdés pers. comm.).

Figures

Fig.15 Maximum likelihood tree of Phyllidiidae based on partial 16S sequences. Terminal taxa on species level collapsed. Numbers at nodes are bootstrap values. The genera are marked with the same colours as in Fig. S1

Fig. 1 Sampling locations in Sulawesi, Indonesia