First record of long-tailed pelagic sea slug Stylocheilus longicauda (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia) from southwest coast of India

Chinnadurai, S.; Bhave, Vishal; Apte, Deepak; Mohamed, K S

doi:10.6024/jmbai.2014.56.2.01794-12

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“…Distribution. Circumtropical including Brazil (Galvão Filho et al 2015), Gulf of Oman (Fatemi and Attaran 2015), Red Sea (Yonow 2008), India (Chinnadurai et al 2014), Australia , Tanzania, the Philippines, and Hawaii . Documented from the Gulf of Thailand .…”

Section: Genus Stylocheilus Gould 1852mentioning

confidence: 99%

An updated inventory of sea slugs from Koh Tao, Thailand, with notes on their ecology and a dramatic biodiversity increase for Thai waters

Mehrotra¹,

Gutiérrez²,

Scott³

et al. 2021

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Improved access to field survey infrastructure throughout South-East Asia has allowed for a greater intensity of biodiversity surveys than ever before. The rocky bottoms and coral reef habitats across the region have been shown to support some of the highest sea slug biodiversity on the planet, with ever increasing records. During the past ten years, intensive SCUBA surveys have been carried out at Koh Tao, in the Gulf of Thailand, which have yielded remarkable findings in sea slug biology and ecology. In this work a brief history of sea slug biodiversity research from Thailand is covered and a complete inventory of sea slugs from Koh Tao, Gulf of Thailand is provided. This inventory is based on surveys from 2012 to 2020, with previously unreported findings since 2016. Habitat specificity and species-specific ecology are reported where available with a focused comparison of coral reef habitats and deeper soft-sediment habitats. The findings contribute 90 new species records for Thai waters (92 for the Gulf of Thailand) and report a remarkable consistency in the proportional diversity found to be exclusive to one habitat type or another. Additionally, taxonomic remarks are provided for species documented from Koh Tao that have not been discussed in past literature from Thailand, and a summary of previous records in the Indo-West Pacific is given.

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Section: Genus Stylocheilus Gould 1852mentioning

confidence: 99%