Aegires ortizi

Aegires ortizi
Dorsal view of Aegires ortizi
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. ortizi
Binomial name
Aegires ortizi
Templado, Luque & Ortea, 1987[1]

Aegires ortizi is a species of sea slug, an nudibranch, a marine, opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Aegiridae.

The specific name ortizi is in honour of Dr. Manuel Ortiz from the Center for Marine Research, University of Havana.[1]

Distribution

Distribution of Aegires ortizi includes Cayman Islands, Bahamas, Venezuela, Cuba and Panama.[2]

Description

Body is elongate.[2] Tubercles are large, varying from conical to mushroom-shaped, with flat tops in some individuals.[2] Gill leaves forming a semicircle on the posterior portion of the dorsum.[2] Background color is usually mottled white, sometimes with noticeable brown spots.[2] It is up to 8 mm long.[2][3]

Ecology

Minimum recorded depth is 2 m.[3] Maximum recorded depth is 5 m.[3]

A single specimen was found on cyanobacteria over coral rubble and sand patches in the Bocas del Toro Archipelago, Panama.[2] In the Bahamas this species has been found on algae of the genera Cladophora and Sargassum.[2]

References

This article incorporates Creative Commons (CC-BY-4.0) text from the reference[2]

  1. 1 2 Templado J., Luque A. A. & Ortea J. (1987). "A new species of Aegires Lovén, 1844 (Opisthobranchia, Doridacea, Aegiretidae) from the Caribbean Sea: Aegires ortizi n. sp. with comparative descriptions of the North Atlantic species of this genus". The Veliger 29(3): 303-307.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 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. doi:10.1186/s41200-016-0048-z
  3. 1 2 3 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.

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