A sea slug (Embletonia pulchra)
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Researched by | Ken Neal | Refereed by | Admin |
Authority | (Alder & Hancock, 1844) | ||
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Summary
Description
Recorded distribution in Britain and Ireland
Recorded from a few locations around Britain and Ireland but is probably under-recorded due to its small size.Global distribution
-Habitat
Found intertidally and in the shallow sublittoral on a variety of hydroids. Has also been recorded interstitially in coarse sand and gravel.Depth range
-Identifying features
- Up to six pairs of unbranched cerata on dorsal surface.
- Digestive glands within cerata orange-brown.
- Frontal margin of head bilobed into oral flaps.
- Rhinophores smooth and widely spaced.
- Body translucent white.
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Bibliography
Howson, C.M. & Picton, B.E., 1997. The species directory of the marine fauna and flora of the British Isles and surrounding seas. Belfast: Ulster Museum. [Ulster Museum publication, no. 276.]
Picton, B.E. & Costello, M.J., 1998. BioMar biotope viewer: a guide to marine habitats, fauna and flora of Britain and Ireland. [CD-ROM] Environmental Sciences Unit, Trinity College, Dublin.
Picton, B.E., 2000. Nudibranchs of the British Isles. http://www.pictonb.freeserve.co.uk/nudibranchs/index.html, 2003-09-11
Thompson, T. E. & Brown, G. H., 1976. British Opisthobranch Molluscs. London: Academic Press. [Synopses of the British Fauna, no. 8.]
Datasets
Conchological Society of Great Britain & Ireland, 2023. Mollusc (marine) records for Great Britain and Ireland. Occurrence dataset: https://doi.org/10.15468/aurwcz accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-09-27.
Manx Biological Recording Partnership, 2022. Isle of Man historical wildlife records 1990 to 1994. Occurrence dataset:https://doi.org/10.15468/aru16v accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-09-27.
NBN (National Biodiversity Network) Atlas. Available from: https://www.nbnatlas.org.
OBIS (Ocean Biodiversity Information System), 2024. Global map of species distribution using gridded data. Available from: Ocean Biogeographic Information System. www.iobis.org. Accessed: 2024-11-05
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Last Updated: 14/06/2004