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Bornella anguilla Johnson 1984
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Bornella anguilla Johnson, 1984
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Material examined. Two specimens. MB28-004426, ZGWS, 10 Nov. 2011, 20m, 68mm; MB28-004613, ZA51, 22 Aug. 2012, 12m, 74mm, collected by J. Bergman.
Habitats. Subtropical rocky reefs.
Occurrences. Zavora.
Geographic distribution. Indo-west, central Pacific. Marshall Islands (Debelius 1996; Pola et al. 2009), Guam (Carlson & Hoff 2003), Fiji, Vanuatu (Gosliner et al. 2008), Japan, Papua New Guinea, Malaysia, Australia, Philippines (Pola et al. 2009), Indonesia (Debelius 1996), Thailand, Myanmar, Madagascar, Réunion Island (Gosliner et al. 2008), Mauritius (Debelius 1996), Madagascar (Pola et al. 2009), South Africa (Gosliner 1987) and Mozambique (King & Fraser 2014).
Notes
Published as part of Tibiriçá, Yara, Pola, Marta & Cervera, Juan Lucas, 2017, Astonishing diversity revealed: an annotated and illustrated inventory of Nudipleura (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) from Mozambique, pp. 1-133 in Zootaxa 4359 (1) on page 94, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4359.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1069168
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Bornellidae
- Genus
- Bornella
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Nudibranchia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Scientific name authorship
- Johnson
- Species
- anguilla
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Bornella anguilla Johnson, 1984 sec. Tibiriçá, Pola & Cervera, 2017
References
- Johnson, S. (1984) A new Indo-West Pacific species of the dendronotacean nudibranch Bornella (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia) with anguilliform swimming behavior. Micronesica, 19, 17 - 26.
- Debelius, H. (1996) Nudibranchs and Sea Snails. Indo-Pacific Field Guide. From the Red Sea to South Africa. Across to the West Coast of the Americas. IKAN-Unterwasserarchiv, Frankfurt, 321 pp.
- Pola, M., Rudman, W. B. & Gosliner, T. M. (2009) Systematics and preliminary phylogeny of Bornellidae (Mollusca: Nudibranchia: Dendronotina) based on morphological characters with description of four new species. Zootaxa, 1975, 1 - 57.
- Carlson, C. & Hoff, P. J. (2003) The opisthobranchs of the Mariana Islands. Micronesica, 35, 271 - 293.
- Gosliner, T. M. (1987) Nudibranchs of southern Africa: a guide to opisthobranch molluscs of southern Africa. Sea Challengers, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, 136 pp.
- King, D. & Fraser, V. (2014) The Reef Guide. Fishes, corals, nudibranchs & other invertebrates. East & South Coasts of Southern Africa. Struik Nature, Cape Town, 360 pp.