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, 1997

	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., E. Madrenas, and M. Pontes. 2023. OPK - Opistobranquis. (https://opistobranquis.info/).

Caballer, M., J. Ortea, N. Rivero, G. Carias-Tucker, M. A. E. Malaquías, and S. Narciso. 2015. The opisthobranch gastropods (Mollusca: Heterobranchia) from Venezuela: an annotated and illustrated inventory of species. Zootaxa 4034 (2): 201–256.

Camacho-García, Y. E., E. Ornelas-Gatdula, T. M. Gosliner, and Á. Valdés. 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. Chelidonura cubana accessed through: JaxShells.org on 2014-12-14. (http://www.jaxshells.org/acuba.htm).

Ortea, J., L. Moro, and J. J. Bacallado. 2015. Babosas Marinas Canarias. Turquesa Ediciones.

Ortea, J., J. Espinosa, M. Caballer, and Y. Buske. 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. Chelidonura cubana accessed through: Sea Slug Forum on 2014-12-14. (http://seaslugforum.net/showall/).

Valdés, A., J. Hamann, D. W. Behrens, and A. DuPont. 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. 2023. World Register of Marine Species. WoRMS. (http://www.marinespecies.org).

Zamora-Silva, A., and M. A. E. Malaquias. 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.

Steve Long, 2006

Bibliography of Opisthobranchia 1554-2000

Gary McDonald, 2009

Bibliographia Nudibranchia

Further reading

Cite this article as:

Pontes, Miquel, Manuel Ballesteros, Enric Madrenas (2023) "Chelidonura cubana" in OPK-Opistobranquis. Published: 08/02/2018. Accessed: 23/09/2023. Available at (https://opistobranquis.info/en/?p=24989)

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