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Chelidonura cubana

Chelidonura cubana Ortea & Martínez, 1997

Chelidonura cubana @ Roatan, Honduras, Caribbean 14-06-2012 by Mickey Charteris

Taxonomy
 

Superdomain

Biota  

 

Kingdom

Animalia  

 

Phylum

Mollusca  

 

Class

Gastropoda  

 

Subclass

Heterobranchia  

 

Infraclass

Euthyneura  

 

Subterclass

Tectipleura  

 

Order

Cephalaspidea  

 

Superfamily

Philinoidea  

 

Family

Aglajidae  

 

Genus

Chelidonura  

 

Species

Chelidonura cubana  Ortea & Martínez, 1998

 
 Classification according to Bouchet et al. (2017)
Taxonomic source: World Register of Marine Species (AphiaID: 420527).
Taxonomic note: Rudman, 2007 (in Sea Slug Forum) said “Chelidonura cubana description was based on three tiny animals about 3 mm long. (…) If the animals are juvenile then the colour pattern may be lacking elements found in fully grown individuals.(…) I would think that C. cubana, with the same colour elements as C. africana, is a synonym of that species”. However this species is actually considered valid in WoRMS. Also the last paper by Zamora-Silva et al (2017) considers this species as valid (at least in the Caribbean), so we also consider it as a valid species.

Description

Biology

Etymology

  • cubana, because it is the first species of the genus described in waters of Cuba.

Distribution

Known georeferenced records of the species: Chelidonura cubana
Sources:
: OBIS
: GROC 2010-2011
: Enric Madrenas
: João Pedro Silva
: Bernard Picton
: GBIF.ORG		 : OPK
: VIMAR
: Manuel Ballesteros.
: M@re Nostrum
: Altres fonts
: Marine Regions

Abundance

    Western Mediterranean: ☆☆☆☆☆
    Eastern Mediterranean: ☆☆☆☆☆
    Atlantic Ocean: ☆☆☆☆☆
Month

This chart displays the monthly observation probability for Chelidonura cubana based on our own records.

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Bibliography

    Ballesteros M, Madrenas E, Pontes M. 2025. OPK - Opistobranquis. Available from https://opistobranquis.info/.
    Caballer M, Ortea J, Rivero N, et al. 2015. The opisthobranch gastropods (Mollusca: Heterobranchia) from Venezuela: an annotated and illustrated inventory of species. Zootaxa 4034 (2): 201–256.
    Caballer M, Narciso S, Rivero N, et al. 2022. Nudibranquios y otras babosas marinas de Venezuela. Caracas. Venezuela: Explora Ediciones.
    Camacho-García YE, Ornelas-Gatdula E, Gosliner TM, et al. 2014. Phylogeny of the family Aglajidae (Pilsbry, 1895) (Heterobranchia: Cephalaspidea) inferred from mtDNA and nDNA. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 71: 113–126.
    Frank, B. et al. 1998 2014. Chelidonura cubana accessed through: JaxShells.org on 2014-12-14. Available from http://www.jaxshells.org/acuba.htm.
    Ortea J, Moro L, Bacallado JJ. 2015. Babosas Marinas Canarias. Turquesa Ediciones.
    Ortea J, Espinosa J, Caballer M, et al. 2012. Initial inventory of the seaslugs (Opisthobranchia and Sacoglossa) from the expedition Karubentos, held in May 2012 in Guadeloupe (Lesser Antilles, Caribbean Sea). Revista de la Academia Canaria de Ciencias 24: 153-182.
    Rudman W.B. et al. 1998 2010. Chelidonura cubana accessed through: Sea Slug Forum on 2014-12-14. Available from http://seaslugforum.net/showall/.
    Valdés A, Hamann J, Behrens DW, et al. 2006. Caribbean sea slugs: a field guide to the opisthobranch mollusks from the tropical northwestern Atlantic. Washington: Sea Challengers Natural History Books. 289 pp.
    WoRMS Editorial Board. 2025. World Register of Marine Species. WoRMS. Available from http://www.marinespecies.org.
    Zamora-Silva A, Malaquias MAE. 2017. Molecular phylogeny of the Aglajidae head-shield sea slugs (Heterobranchia: Cephalaspidea): new evolutionary lineages revealed and proposal of a new classification. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2017, XX, 1–51.
    Zamora-Silva A, Malaquias MAE. 2018. Molecular phylogeny of the Aglajidae head-shield sea slugs (Heterobranchia: Cephalaspidea): new evolutionary lineages revealed and proposal of a new classification. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.(183):1–51. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx064.

    Bibliography based on the works by Steve Long, 2006. Bibliography of Opisthobranchia 1554-2000 and Gary McDonald, 2009. Bibliographia Nudibranchia, with later updates from other resources.

Further reading

Cite this article as:

Pontes, Miquel, Manuel Ballesteros, Enric Madrenas (2012-2025) "Chelidonura cubana" in OPK-Opistobranquis. Published: 08/02/2018. Accessed: 03/02/2025. Available at (https://opistobranquis.info/en/?p=24989)