Revisión del género indopacífico &lt;i&gt;Nembrotha&lt;/i&gt; Bergh, 1877 (Mollusca: Nudibranchia: Polyceridae), con la descripción de dos nuevas especies

Pola, Marta; Cervera, Juan Lucas; Gosliner, Terrence M.

doi:10.3989/scimar.2008.72n1145

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“…Six species of Nembrotha were collected in BA, but only two of these species, the highly conspicuous Nembrotha kubaryana and N. cristata, are reported from BNP, which are also very common in BA. Members of the genus feed on ascidians, which usually need higher nutrition in the water column [43]. No bryozoan-feeding members of the genus Polycera are recorded from BA, although several species are recorded from BNP [16].…”

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First Study on Marine Heterobranchia (Gastropoda, Mollusca) in Bangka Archipelago, North Sulawesi, Indonesia

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As ephemeral, benthic, secondary consumers usually associated with sessile coral reef organisms, marine heterobranchs are good indicators of the health of marine tropical habitats. Thus, marine Heterobranchia have recently become a major target for monitoring programs. For this work, an extensive survey was made in Bangka Archipelago, the first of its kind in this area. Bangka Archipelago is composed of small islands and the adjacent coastline of North Sulawesi. The substrate is dominated by biogenic reefs and volcanic rocks, thus forming highly diverse habitats. In total, 149 species were collected and/or photo-documented in September 2017 and September 2018, which represents the dry season. They can be assigned to the Cephalaspidea, Aplysiida, Pleurobranchida, Nudibranchia, and Eupulmonata. Thirty-three species are new to science, highlighting the lack of knowledge about the group and especially about this region. Our data provide a baseline for future monitoring surveys, as the anthropogenic pressures on Bangka Archipelago are increasing due to enhanced touristic activities, but also due to large scale environmental changes caused by previous mining operation activities.

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First Study on Marine Heterobranchia (Gastropoda, Mollusca) in Bangka Archipelago, North Sulawesi, Indonesia

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“…Many specimens are also identified as different species on the basis of slight differences in colouration (Goodheart and Valdés 2013, Padula et al 2014, Layton et al 2018, but this conclusion is based on the assumption that most species have limited colour variation, so individual members of the same species share similar colour patterns (Valdés et al 2013). However, several molecular studies have shown that, at least in some species, colour patterns are considerably variable within members of the same species (Pola et al 2008, Padula et al 2016, Tibiriçá et al 2018). Finally, it can also occur that the same individual changes colour as it grows and matures (Ortea et al 1996).…”

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“…The genus Nembrotha was introduced by Bergh in 1877. It is distributed throughout the tropical Indo-Pacific, from South Africa to Eastern Australia, but is absent from other tropical areas in the Atlantic and the Eastern Pacific (Pola et al 2008). Today, the genus includes 12 nominal species (MolluscaBase 2022), most of them originally described on the basis of differences in their colour pattern (Pola et al 2008).…”

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Psychedelics sea slugs: Observations on colour ontogeny in two nudibranch species from the genus Nembrotha (Doridina: Polyceridae)

Pola,

Tibiriçá,

Cervera

2023

scimar

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In recent decades, thanks to the use of integrated taxonomy, the traditional recognition of a nudibranch species based on observation and colour pattern variation has become increasingly questioned, mainly due to the presence of cryptic and pseudocryptic species complexes. Individuals with the same colour pattern can be genetically identical, but individuals with different colour patterns may also be genetically identical and this variation may instead represent different life stages. But things can get even more complicated. What happens when the same species changes its colour pattern radically as it ages? Here we present two extraordinary examples in species of the genus Nembrotha based on laboratory observation. Specimens of Nembrotha livingstonei Allan, 1933 and Nembrotha yonowae Goethel and Debelius, 1992 were collected in Mozambique and kept in captivity as long as feeding was possible. The results showed that colour patterns in both species changed over time and that this change was linked to diet. Furthermore, species delimitation analysis and comparison of the uncorrected COI pairwise distances of examined specimens from Mozambique and others downloaded from GenBank confirmed that N. yonowae Goether and Debelius, 1992 is a junior synonym of N. cristata Bergh, 1877. Similar studies with laboratory observations are needed on other species of the genus, as they were described on the basis of different colouration, but integrated taxonomy may show different results.

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“…Western Indian Ocean. Tanzania, Comoros Islands , South Africa (Gosliner 1987;Pola et al 2008) and Mozambique .…”

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“…With nearly 2500 km of coast, spanning both subtropical and tropical areas, which support complex environments, Mozambique provides an ideal location to study the marine diversity of the western Indian Ocean (Pereira et al 2014). In spite of this, there are only about 50 species of Nudipleura recorded in the literature from Mozambique (Martens 1879;Macnae & Kalk 1958;Gosliner et al , 2015Pola et al 2008;King & Fraser 2014;Lima et al 2016;Matsuda & Gosliner 2017) The documentation of Mozambican Nudipleura fauna is relevant with regards to wider questions about biogeography and phylogenetics, as these questions can only be answered based on robust species assessment (Briggs & Bowen 2012). Moreover, knowledge of the biodiversity is the first step towards the discovery of products for the benefit of society (Fautin 1988;Flam 1994;Avila et al 2000;Fusetani 2000;Benkendorff 2010).…”

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Astonishing diversity revealed: an annotated and illustrated inventory of Nudipleura (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) from Mozambique

Tibiriçá¹,

Pola

Cervera

2017

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Hancock, 1845 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Miller, 2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Genus Baeolidia Bergh, 1888 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AbstractThis paper provides the first comprehensive annotated and illustrated inventory of Nudipleura from Mozambique. A total of 267 species are recorded, including 61 putative new species, documented over a period of seven years from several localities along the coast. At least 20 species need further investigation through molecular and taxomic analysis. Of the 186 confirmed described species, 118 are new records for the Mozambican fauna. Sampling was carried in tidal reefs and depths up to 60m on the subtropical and tropical coast of Mozambique. The most representative families were Chromodorididae (69 species), Discodorididae (30 species), Facelinidae (23 species) and Phyllididae (16 species). Nevertheless, a vast area of Mozambique remains unexplored, thus it is likely that the species documented here represent only a fraction of the true Nudipleura diversity of the country.

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Revisión del género indopacífico <i>Nembrotha</i> Bergh, 1877 (Mollusca: Nudibranchia: Polyceridae), con la descripción de dos nuevas especies

Cited by 8 publications

References 12 publications

First Study on Marine Heterobranchia (Gastropoda, Mollusca) in Bangka Archipelago, North Sulawesi, Indonesia

First Study on Marine Heterobranchia (Gastropoda, Mollusca) in Bangka Archipelago, North Sulawesi, Indonesia

Psychedelics sea slugs: Observations on colour ontogeny in two nudibranch species from the genus Nembrotha (Doridina: Polyceridae)

Astonishing diversity revealed: an annotated and illustrated inventory of Nudipleura (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) from Mozambique

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