Trapania luquei Ortea, 1989
Biology
Etymology
- Trapania. The original generic name of this species was Drepania, proposed by Lafont in 1874. Pruvot-Fol in 1931 proposed changing the generic name to Trapania to disambiguate it from Drepania Hübner, 1816 (a group of lepidoptera). Madame Pruvot-Fol does not indicate the origin of the name, but there are two theories: the first would be dedicated to the city of Trapani, the province capital of western Sicily; the second would be inspired on the original generic name Drepania, derived from the Greek “Drepane” which means “sickle” and presumably refers to the shape of the appendages located on the sides of the rhinophores and gills in this genus. Pruvot Fol would have chosen the new name on the basis that it has the same meaning, but not the same sound and thus avoid confusion.
- Luquei. Named for Prof. Dr. Ángel Antonio Luque del Villar, malacologyst, professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, and who was first secretary of Sociedad Española de Malacologia.
Distribution
This species has been reported in Cape Verde (Ortea, 1989; Rolán, 2005) and also in the Canary Islands (Moro, Ortea & Bacallado, 1997; Ortea et al. 2001 and Moro et al. 2003).
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Abundance
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Bibliography
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Ortea, J., and E. Rolán. 1989. Descripcion de una nueva especie del genero Polycera Cuvier, 1816 (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) del archipielago de Cabo Verde. Publicações Ocasionais da Sociedade Portuguesa de Malacologia (14):23-28, 1 pl.
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Further reading
Cite this article as:
Ballesteros, M., Madrenas, E. & Pontes, M. (2023) "Trapania luquei" in OPK-Opistobranquis. Published: 07/06/2015. Accessed: 07/06/2023. Available at (https://opistobranquis.info/en/vGpPw)
