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Coryphella nobilis A. E. Verrill 1880

  • 1. Corresponding author, e-mail: irenekimova @ gmail. com

Description

Coryphella nobilis A. E. Verrill, 1880

(Fig. 7E)

Material studied: MIMB40022, MIMB40023, 2 specimens, Sea of Okhotsk, Severny Bay, 54°27’9”N, 142°14’18.0”E, 38 m depth, 31 July 2019, coll. A. Mayorova.

Diagnosis: Body wide, narrowing posteriorly, up to 19 mm in length, translucent white. Rhinophores wrinkled, orange to light brown with white tips. Cerata orange to red, arranged in continuous rows. Jaws oval-shaped with 9–12 rows of small conical denticles on slightly curved masticatory border. Radular formula 18 × 1.1.1. Triangular rachidian tooth, small conical cusp non-compressed by adjacent denticles, and 6–7 denticles on each side. Lateral teeth broad, triangular, with 11–13 denticles. Ampulla coiled, narrow.Vas deferens slightly curved, short, widened. Penis lobe-shaped.

Distribution: This species has a wide distribution in boreal Atlantic and Arctic waters, having been recorded from different localities of the North Atlantic, subarctic and Arctic waters [Ekimova et al., 2022a]. It was recently discovered on Sakhalin Island [Ekimova et al., 2022a].

Notes

Published as part of Ekimova, Irina A., Grishina, Darya Yu. & Nikitenko, Ekaterina D., 2024, Nudibranch molluscs of Sakhalin Island, Northwestern Pacific: new records and descriptions of two new species, pp. 69-91 in Ruthenica, Russian Malacological Journal 34 (2) on page 82, DOI: 10.35885/ruthenica.2024.34(2).3, http://zenodo.org/record/11042878

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Event date
2019-07-31
Family
Coryphellidae
Genus
Coryphella
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Nudibranchia
Phylum
Mollusca
Scientific name authorship
A. E. Verrill
Species
nobilis
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
2019-07-31
Taxonomic concept label
Coryphella nobilis Verrill, 1880 sec. Ekimova, Grishina & Nikitenko, 2024

References

  • Ekimova I., Valdes A., Malaquias M. A. E., Rauch C., Chichvarkhin A., Mikhlina A., Antokhina T., Chich- varkhina O., Schepetov, D. 2022 a. High-level taxo- nomic splitting in allopatric taxa causes confusion downstream: a revision of the nudibranch family Сoryphellidae. Zoological journal of the Linnean Society, 196 (1): 215 - 249.