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Thuridilla mazda<\/em>\u00a0 Ortea & Espinosa, 2000<\/h3>\n

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Thuridilla mazda @ Punta del Vapor, Almu\u00f1\u00e9car, Granada<\/em> by Miguel Vila<\/center><\/span>

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WoRMS Taxonomic Information<\/h3>
Current accepted name: Thuridilla mazda<\/em> Ortea & Espinosa, 2000<\/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>Plakobranchidae<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Genus<\/th>Thuridilla<\/em><\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Species<\/th>Thuridilla mazda<\/em> Ortea & Espinosa, 2000<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/table>

Classification provided by the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). [420576<\/a>]<\/p><\/div>Description
\n<\/strong>Relatively small body, with a maximum reported length of about 6 mm, black in color. The parapods, usually closed, protect the body. The edge of the parapods has a fine white or pale yellow line that, in the area near the head, forms a pattern similar to an inverted 3 that is continued by a streak of the same color that reaches the anterior end of the body . This line turns orange near the tail. The edges are also decorated on the outside with up to 7 semicircular colored areas alternated with black areas. From the edge and towards the body, each of these colored areas contains overlapping semicircles of yellow, orange, blue and orange. There are no color spots at the bottom of the parapods. The interior of the parapods is very dark green, almost black, uniform, with a grayish band along the inner edges and a striking blue line near the tail. There are some orange spots in the precardiac area. The edge of the parapods is slightly wavy so that the undulations of each parapod match its opposite. The color pattern of the parapods accentuates the ondulated look of the parapods. Smaller specimens appear to have a less elaborate color pattern than larger specimens. The rhinophores are short with a broad base, black on the anterior ventral half and white, with blue apical spots on the posterior dorsal half. A white “Y” shaped spot covers the dorsal surface of the head, neck and middorsal area of \u200b\u200bthe rhinophores, which may be pale yellow in its central area, ending in an iridescent blue spot before the orange precardiac crest. . Between the anterior margins of the rhinophores there is an orange spot. The front of the head is dark brown. The eyes are relatively small and inconspicuous, located at the base of the rhinophores, on the margins of the dorsal white spot, and have a small iridescent blue dot located in front of and below each eye. There is an orange band along the anterior part of the foot.<\/p>\n

Biology
\n<\/strong>There are few reports of this species since its description, probably due to its small size, so little is known about its biology. All the specimens have been found on algae, on which it feeds. The egg-spawn is a flat ribbon wound in a spiral of about two turns with orange eggs (Ortea et al., 2015).<\/p>\n

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