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Issue: Vol. 5336 No. 4: 24 Aug. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-08-24
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5336.4.5
Page range: 543-554
Abstract views: 370
PDF downloaded: 29

Morphological and molecular evidence reveals a new species of Anteaeolidiella (Mollusca, Nudibranchia, Aeolidiidae) from the Yellow Sea, China

Laboratory of Marine Organism Taxonomy and Phylogeny; Qingdao Key Laboratory of Marine Biodiversity and Conservation; Institute of Oceanology; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Qingdao 266071; China
Laboratory of Marine Organism Taxonomy and Phylogeny; Qingdao Key Laboratory of Marine Biodiversity and Conservation; Institute of Oceanology; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Qingdao 266071; China
Mollusca heterobranchia gastropoda sea slug molluscan diversity

Abstract

During an investigation of nudibranch gastropods in the Yellow Sea, several specimens were collected from the intertidal zone of Qingdao, Shandong Province, China. Morphological observation of their external and internal anatomy revealed that they represent an undescribed species belonging to the genus Anteaeolidiella M. C. Miller, 2001. This new species, Anteaeolidiella decorus sp. nov., can be differentiated from other congeners by both external morphology and internal anatomy. Phylogenetic analyses of two mitochondrial (COI, 16S rRNA) and a nuclear (H3) gene using Bayesian inference, maximum likelihood analysis, and species delimitation analyses also support the separation of Anteaeolidiella decorus sp. nov. from its congeners.

 

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