{"id":2437,"date":"2012-10-24T20:24:37","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T18:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opistobranquis.info\/hermaea-paucicirrahermaea-paucicirrahermaea-paucicirra"},"modified":"2020-05-10T16:38:58","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T14:38:58","slug":"hermaea-paucicirra","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/opistobranquis.info\/en\/guia\/sacoglossa\/plakobranchoidea\/hermaea-paucicirra\/","title":{"rendered":"Hermaea paucicirra"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hermaea paucicirra<\/em>\u00a0 Pruvot-Fol, 1953<\/h3>\n

\"Hermaea<\/div>
Hermaea paucicirra<\/em> by Luis \u00c1ngel D\u00edaz \u00c1lvarez<\/center><\/span>

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WoRMS Taxonomic Information<\/h3>
Current accepted name: Hermaea paucicirra<\/em> Pruvot-Fol, 1953<\/strong><\/div>

Current classification<\/h4>
Superdomain<\/th>Biota<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Kingdom<\/th>Animalia<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Phylum<\/th>Mollusca<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Class<\/th>Gastropoda<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Subclass<\/th>Heterobranchia<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Infraclass<\/th>Euthyneura<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Subterclass<\/th>Tectipleura<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Superorder<\/th>Sacoglossa<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Superfamily<\/th>Plakobranchoidea<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Family<\/th>Hermaeidae<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Genus<\/th>Hermaea<\/em><\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Species<\/th>Hermaea paucicirra<\/em> Pruvot-Fol, 1953<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/table>

Classification provided by the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). [140094<\/a>]<\/p><\/div>Description
\n<\/strong>This is a small sized sacoglosan since specimens usually are 3-4 mm long with a maximum size of 6 mm. The body is semi-transparent white, highlighting the existence of pink-violet lines that run along the back and side walls of the body. The dorsal lines penetrate the inside of the rhinophores and cross the whole back towards the tail, at times are discontinuous lines. Lateral lines pass under the cerata base and penetrate the anterior cephalic region where they widen somewhat. At the base of the first cerata there is a connection between dorsal and lateral lines on each side. At the base of the cerata on each side there are also lines of the same color that run towards the tail and join at the tip. The head is very short but instead the rhinophores are very developed in relation to the size of the animal. The rhinophores are auriculate and narrow at the base, but then they widen progressively and finally narrow in the apex, they are semitransparent except the inside face, colored purplish due to the extension of the back lines, and may also have whitish granulations. The eyes are very visible in the rear of the base of the rhinophores. The cerata are very few in numbers (the specific name of the species means this), only 8-10 on each side of the body, they are of different sizes and globose, semitransparent and the digestive gland inside is brownish or dark green, while white granulations may be also in the surface epithelium of the larger cerata. The anus is at the end of a small conical papilla before the cardiac area, located at neat the front cerata. Genitalia are located between the eye and the first cerata on the right side.<\/p>\n

Biology
\n<\/strong>Very little known about the biology of this species. It has been cited living or feeding on green algae as Codium fragile<\/i> or rhodophycean as Halurus equisetifolius<\/i> and other filamentous red algae, on which it is completely unnoticed. It has also been collected, in the Mediterranean, on rhizomes of the seagrass Posidonia oceanica<\/em> and on shallow stones covered with photophilic seaweed.<\/p>\n

Etymology<\/strong><\/p>\n