Pleurobranchus peronii Cuvier 1804
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Pleurobranchus peronii Cuvier, 1804 (Fig. 1A)
Pleurobranchus peronii Cuvier, 1804: 266, 275, pl. 18, fig. 1-6; Tryon and Pilsbry, 1895: 207-208, pl. 48, fig. 24-28, pl. 74, fig. 88-90; Gosliner et al., 2008: 100.
Pleurobranchus hirasei Baba, 1971: 24-25, pl. 3; Okutani 2000: 771.
Materials examined. 3 individuals, Hwasun-ri, Andeokmyeon, Seogwipo-si, Jeju-do, 25 May 2013 (D. Jung) (KOSPIV0000185832).
Description. Body ovate and large; length 67-102 mm, width 63-81 mm in living animal; yellow to reddish purple. Mantle covered foot except posterior end. Whole dorsum covered with small rounded tubercles; several tips of tubercles white, orange or dark purple. Reticulate pigment around the tubercles dark or white. Rhinophores enrolled and wrinkled; joined basally. Oral veil small and reversely trapezoid. Gills on right side of body, covered by mantle; bipinnated and alternated 22-23 pinnae on each side. Foot wide; anteriorly bilabiated; metapodium blunted and orange in color.
Distribution. Korea, Japan, Hawaii, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Australia, South Africa, Madagascar, Tanzania.
Remarks. P. peronii has a range of body colors that includes pale translucent white, yellow, brown and deep purple (Rudman, 1999). Specimens examined in this study were yellow to reddish orange in body color. Also, brighter colors were shown in younger specimens.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Event date
- 2013-05-25
- Family
- Pleurobranchidae
- Genus
- Pleurobranchus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Pleurobranchida
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Scientific name authorship
- Cuvier
- Species
- peronii
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 2013-05-25
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pleurobranchus peronii Cuvier, 1804 sec. Jung, Lee & Kim, 2014
References
- Cuvier, G. 1804. Memoire sur la Phyllididie et sur le Pleurobranche, deux nouveaux genres de mollusques de l'ordre des gasteropodes, et voisins des patelles et des oscabrions, dont l'un est nuet dont l'autre porte une coquille cachee. Annales de Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 5 (1): 266 - 276.
- Tryon, G. W. and H. A. Pilsbry. 1895. Manual of conchology; structural and systematic with illustrations of the species. Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia.
- Gosliner, T. M., D. W. Behrens and A. Valdes. 2008. Indo-Pacific nudibranchs and sea slugs. A field guide to the world's most diverse fauna. Sea Challengers Natural History Books and California Academy of Sciences, Washington. pp. 1 - 426.
- Baba, K. 1971. Pleurobranchus hirasei n. sp., proposed for a mollusc formerly known as Oscanius testudinarius: Hirase, 1927, from Japan (Opisthobranchia: Notaspidea). Venus 30 (1): 23 - 28.
- Okutani, T. 2000. Marine mollusks in Japan. University of Tokyo Press, Tokyo. pp. 1 - 1173.
- Rudman, W. B. 1999. Pleurobranchus peroni Cuvier, 1804. Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney [Available from: http: // www. seaslugforum. net / find / pleupero, access- ed 19 August 2013].