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Trapania bajamarensis<\/em> Moro & Ortea, 2015<\/h3>\n

\"Trapania<\/div>
Trapania bajamarensis @ Gran Canaria<\/em> by Mario Matute<\/center><\/span>

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WoRMS Taxonomic Information<\/h3>
Current accepted name: Trapania bajamarensis<\/em> Moro & Ortea, 2015<\/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>Ringipleura<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Superorder<\/th>Nudipleura<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Order<\/th>Nudibranchia<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Suborder<\/th>Doridina<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Infraorder<\/th>Doridoidei<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Superfamily<\/th>Onchidoridoidea<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Family<\/th>Goniodorididae<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Subfamily<\/th>Anculinae<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Genus<\/th>Trapania<\/em><\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Species<\/th>Trapania bajamarensis<\/em> Moro & Ortea, 2015<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/table>

Classification provided by the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). [866467<\/a>]<\/p><\/div>Description
\n<\/strong>With a maximum recorded size of about 12 mm, adult specimens have a brown or purplish body, with white areas mottled with yellow and scattered yellow spots. On the sides of the body the white areas tend to be rounded, with a golden spot in the centre. The head has an elongated white spot on its upper side, which extends between the rhinophores, with yellow spots inside. There may also be a similar white spot, irregularly shaped, on the upper part of the tip of the tail. Juveniles (less than 6 mm) lack the white spot on the head and tail, which are barely noticeable, and their body is purplish brown with whitish areas and small golden spots scattered throughout the surface, including the head, tail and propodial angles. The oral tentacles are whitish, with purplish and golden spots at their base, purplish with dark brown spots. The body appendages are purplish or dark brown, with brown and yellow spots and their upper edge spotted with white and yellow; the anterior ones are shorter than the length of the rhinophores in small specimens (5-6 mm), in which they look like clubs, and as long as them in larger specimens, to the point that when extended they exceed in length the posterior appendages that flank the gills, and they always arch backwards but only surround the rhinophores in larger specimens. Rhinophores with about 8 wide lamellae, the 4-5 lower ones brown and the upper ones, next to the mucron, whitish. Propodial angles triangular in shape, wide and long, purplish or purplish brown with a white tip. Gill formed by three bipinnate leaves, with a purplish or brown rachis and white pinnae. An irregular white spot runs along the back of the tail.<\/p>\n

Biology
\n<\/strong>Specimens found from the intertidal zone to 42 metres deep. Sometimes found on Lobophora variegata<\/em> algae or on cave walls. It is believed that they feed on entoprocts (very small organisms that grow on marine sponges) as other members of the genus.<\/p>\n

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