Spurilla braziliana

Spurilla braziliana is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch. It is a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Aeolidiidae.[2]

Spurilla braziliana
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S. braziliana
Binomial name
Spurilla braziliana
MacFarland, 1909[1]

Distribution

This species was described from a single specimen collected at Alagoas, Brazil. It has also been reported from the Caribbean Sea, Florida, Mexico, Colombia, Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and in the northern part of the Magellanic Province. It has been identified from the Pacific Ocean including the Hawaiian Islands, the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, Peru, Japan, China, and Australia.[3][4]

Description

Spurilla braziliana is variable in colour, with this variation being correlated with age.[5][3]

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References

  1. MacFarland FM., (1909). The opisthobranchiate Mollusca of the Branner-Agassiz expedition to Brazil. In: MacFarland FM, editor. University series (2). Stanford: Leland Stanford Junior University Publications. p. 1–104. pls. 1–19.
  2. Gofas, S. (2015). Spurilla braziliana. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-11-21.
  3. Carmona L, Lei BR, Pola M, Gosliner TM, Valdés Á, Cervera JL. (2014). Untangling the Spurilla neapolitana (Delle Chiaje, 1841) species complex: a review of the genus Spurilla Bergh, 1864 (Mollusca: Nudibranchia: Aeolidiidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 170(1):132–54.
  4. Carmona L., Pola M., Gosliner T.M. & Cervera J.L. (2013). A tale that morphology fails to tell: A molecular phylogeny of Aeolidiidae (Aeolidida, Nudibranchia, Gastropoda). PLoS ONE 8(5): e63000. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0063000.
  5. Domínguez M, Troncoso JS, García FJ. (2008). The family Aeolidiidae Gray, 1827 (Gastropoda Opisthobranchia) from Brazil, with a description of a new species belonging to the genus Berghia Trinchese, 1877. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 153: 349–368.
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