Guide to Opisthobranchs Nudibranchia Cladobranchia Tritonioidea Duvaucelia manicata

Duvaucelia manicata

Duvaucelia manicata (Deshayes, 1853)

Duvaucelia manicata by Enric Madrenas

Taxonomy

	Superdomain	Biota
	Kingdom	Animalia
	Phylum	Mollusca
	Class	Gastropoda
	Subclass	Heterobranchia
	Infraclass	Euthyneura
	Subterclass	Ringipleura
	Superorder	Nudipleura
	Order	Nudibranchia
	Suborder	Cladobranchia
	Superfamily	Tritonioidea
	Family	Tritoniidae
	Genus	Duvaucelia
	Species	Duvaucelia manicata (Deshayes, 1853)

	Classification according to Bouchet et al. (2017) Taxonomic source: World Register of Marine Species (AphiaID: 1473657).

Taxonomic note: Genus Duvaucelia is reinstated after the paper by Korshunova & Martynov (2020) to differentiate the small Tritoniidae with non-bilobed frontal veil and a moderate number of lateral teeth in radula, mostly inhabiting European temperate and subtropical waters.

Synonyms

Candiella villafranca Vayssière, 1901
Duvaucelia gracilis Risso, 1826
Nemocephala marmorata Costa A., 1867
Tritonia moesta Bergh, 1884
Tritonia manicata Deshayes, 1853

Description
The body, like in other species of the same genus, is tall and with a square section. Animals are small and can reach a size of just over 10 mm long. The background color of the body is whitish but the dorsum appears darkened by an elongated and of irregular contour dark brown, almost black, stain, continuous in many specimens, which runs from the back of the head to the tail. Spots of the same color are also appreciated in front of the rhinophores and on the side walls of the body, in this case in the form of small irregular spots and, in some animals, aligned as a discontinuous stripe. In some specimens the spots on the dorsum and sides of the body could be reddish. The head has a semitransparent cephalic veil with 4-6 fingerings in the front. The rhinophores are short and cylindrical, with 2-3 poorly developed lamellae and a small number of digitations directed obliquely and forward. The rhinophore is surrounded at its base by a wide whitish sheath which also could be coloured in dark brown pigment. The eyes are seen by transparency in the center of the base of the rhinophores. The back has 3-4 white little branched processes on each side. The genital opening and anus are located on the right side of the body, at the height of the first and second dorsal process. The foot is rounded in the front area and is broad in the tail, widely protruding underneath the dorsum; it is coloured whitish.

Biology
This species is usually found in dimly lit shallow rocky walls with an abundance of seaweeds, sponges and hydrarians. In these walls abound anthozoan cnidarians of the stoloniferous group, of the genus Cornularia and Clavularia, on which it apparently feeds. It can also be found between rhizomes of Posidonia oceanica.

Etymology

Duvaucelia. In honor of Alfred Duvaucel (1792-1824), son of Anne-Marie Duvaucel’s marriage to Baron de Cuvier, with whom he was in India and Sumatra collecting objects of natural history for the Museum of Paris until his death, in Java, at the age of 31.
Manicata. From Latin “manicatus”, with sleeves, alluding the rhinophoric sheaths.

Distribution
This species is mainly distributed across all Mediterranean coastlines but there are cites from the Atlantic coast of Morocco and in the British Isles. In the Iberian Peninsula it has been found in all coastal areas and also in the Balearic islands. In Catalonia it has been cited in several localities of the Costa Brava (Es Caials, Illes Medes, Estartit, Cala Aiguablava, Llafranc, Cala Santa Cristina, Tossa de Mar) and also in Vilassar de Mar.

Known georeferenced records of the species: Duvaucelia manicata
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

References for the species: Duvaucelia manicata

Cantabria: Ortea (1977a,b), Fernández-Ovies (1981). All as Duvaucelia. Galicia: Ortea (1977a,b), Fernández-Ovies (1981), Urgorri and Besteiro (1983). Portugal: De Oliveira (1895), Hidalgo (1916), Nobre (1932) (all these as T. moesta), García-Gómez et al. (1991a), Calado et al. (1999, 2003). Andalucía (Atl.): Cervera and García (1986). Gibraltar: García-Gómez (1983), García-Gómez et al. (1989). Andalucía (Med.): Luque (1983, 1986, as Duvaucelia), Ballesteros et al. (1986, as Duvaucelia), Hergueta and Salas (1987, as Duvaucelia), Templado, Luque and Moreno (1988), Sánchez Tocino, Ocaña and García (2000a). Levante: Templado (1982b, 1983, 1984), Ballesteros (1985), Ballesteros et al. (1986) (all of them as Duvaucelia), Marín and Ros (1987), Templado et al. (2002). Catalunya: Ros (1975, 1978b, 1985b), Ros & Altimira (1977), Ballesteros (1980, 1985), Altimira et al. (1981), Huelin & Ros (1984), M@re Nostrum [Illa Mateua (L'Escala) 7/1999]. Todas las citas excepto M@re Nostrum como Duvaucelia. Baleares: Templado (1982a), Ballesteros, Álvarez and Mateo (1986). Both records as Duvaucelia.

General: Brown, 1978a:305; Brown & Picton, 1979:3; Cattaneo-Vietti, Chemello, & Giannuzzi-Savelli, 1990:137[P]; Haefelfinger, 1963:62; Luque, 1983:61; Perrone, 1986a:23; Picton & Morrow, 1994:30[P]; Pruvot-Fol, 1937:532; Riedl, 1983:321; Schmekel, 1970:174; Schmekel & Portmann, 1982:143[P]; Templado, Luque, & Moreno, 1988:18; Thompson, 1988:112; Thompson & Brown, 1984:14[P]

Sources: Cervera et al., 2004, Ballesteros, 2007 & 2016, McDonald, 2006 and other sources.

Similar species
Due to its dark coloration, it cannot be confused with any other species.

Abundance

Western Mediterranean:
Eastern Mediterranean:
Atlantic Ocean:

Month

This chart displays the monthly observation probability for Duvaucelia manicata based on our own records.

Videos

More pictures

Bibliography

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:

Ballesteros, Manuel, Enric Madrenas, Miquel Pontes (2021) "Duvaucelia manicata" in OPK-Opistobranquis. Published: 16/05/2012. Accessed: 27/01/2021. Available at (https://opistobranquis.info/en/VzEij)

To copy this cite click on the right button.

Duvaucelia manicata