Aegires evorae

Aegires evorae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Euctenidiacea
clade Doridacea

Superfamily: Polyceroidea
Family: Aegiridae
Genus: Aegires
Species: A. evorae
Binomial name
Aegires evorae
Moro & Ortea, 2015[1]

Aegires evorae is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine, opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Aegiridae.[2]

The specific name evorae is in honour of Cesária Évora, a Cape Verdean popular singer.[1]

Distribution

This species was described from Caletinha, northwest of the Isla de Sal, Cape Verde Islands.[1]

Description

Aegires evorae has a cream-white body with a patchy brown overlay which is broken by regularly spaced, circular patches of darker brown dots. The rhinophores have a distinctive narrow band of brown below the tip.[1]

Ecology

This nudibranch probably feeds on the calcareous sponge, Clathrina coriacea.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Moro, L. & Ortea, J.A., (2015). Nuevos taxones de babosas marinas de las islas Canarias y de Cabo Verde (Mollusca: Heterobranchia). Vieraea 43, 21-86
  2. Bouchet, P. (2015). Aegires evorae Moro & Ortea, 2015. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-11-09
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