Chelidonura cubana

Chelidonura cubana Ortea & Martínez, 1997

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

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

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Further reading

• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• Flickr pictures
• Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
• NCBI GenBank
• Sea Slug Forum
• World Register of Marine Species

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