''Eubranchus conicla'' is a
species
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of
sea slug
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or
nudibranch, a
marine
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gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusc
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in the
family
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Eubranchidae.
Taxonomy
''Eubranchus convenientis'' Ortea & Caballer, 2002 was described from
Manzanillo,
Limón,
Costa Rica
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.
''Eubranchus convenientis'' is considered as a synonym of ''Eubranchus conicla''.
Distribution
This species was described from
Ubatuba and
Ilhabela,
São Paulo state
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* Sao civilisation, in Middle Africa from 6th century BC to 16th century AD
* Sao, a town in Boussé Department, Burkina Faso
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,
Brasil.
It has been reported from Florida, Honduras, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Jamaica, Barbados, Tobago, Brazil and Panama.
Description
Body is elongate.
are smooth.
Oral tentacles are short.
Cerata are tuberculate, few in number, arranged in two simple rows.
Background color is translucent gray or brown with numerous white dots.
Rhinophores and oral tentacles are sometimes ringed with brown.
Cerata are white, sometimes with brown or green spots.
The maximum recorded body length is 4 mm.
[Welch J. J. (2010). "The “Island Rule” and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". '' PLoS ONE'' 5(1): e8776. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008776.]
Ecology
Minimum recorded depth is 0 m.
Maximum recorded depth is 3 m.
Found on ''
Sargassum
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'' in Panama.
References
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[Goodheart J. A., Ellingson R. A., Vital X. G., Galvão Filho H. C., McCarthy J. B., Medrano S. M., Bhave V. J., García-Méndez K., Jiménez L. M., López G. & Hoover C. A. (2016). "Identification guide to the heterobranch sea slugs (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from Bocas del Toro, Panama". ''Marine Biodiversity Records'' 9(1): 56. ]
External links
* Turgeon, D.; Quinn, J.F.; Bogan, A.E.; Coan, E.V.; Hochberg, F.G.; Lyons, W.G.; Mikkelsen, P.M.; Neves, R.J.; Roper, C.F.E.; Rosenberg, G.; Roth, B.; Scheltema, A.; Thompson, F.G.; Vecchione, M.; Williams, J.D. (1998). ''Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: mollusks''. 2nd ed. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, 26. American Fisheries Society: Bethesda, MD (USA). . IX, 526 + cd-rom pp.
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Eubranchidae
Gastropods described in 1958
Taxa named by Ernst Marcus (zoologist)