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Pseudoceros velutinus

  • 1. Departmento de Biodiversidad y Biología Evolutiva, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), c / José Gutiérrez Abascal 2, 28006 Madrid, Spain.
  • 2. Marine Invertebrates Department, Australian Museum Research Institute, Australian Museum, 1 William Street, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia.
  • 3. Servicio de Biodiversidad, Gobierno de Canarias, Edif. Usos Múltiples I, Av. Anaga n ° 35, Pl. 11, 38071 S / C de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.
  • 4. Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain.

Description

Pseudoceros velutinus (Blanchard, 1847)

Figs 1C, 7D

Proceros velutinus Blanchard, 1847: 273, pl. 8, fig. 2; pl. 9, fig. 1.

Eurylepta velutina – Diesing 1850: 210; 1862: 548. — Stimpson 1857: 2. — Schmarda 1859: 26. — Diesing 1862: 548.

Pseudoceros velutinus – Lang 1884: 538–539, pl. 5, fig. 4.

Material examined

CAPE VERDE • 1 spec.; São Vicente Island, Baía das Gatas; 16°54′09.33″ N, 24°54′25.25″ W (Fig. 1C V 2); 5 May 2017; Leopoldo Moro leg.; RCCN.

Distribution

Gulf of Genova, Italy (type locality) (Blanchard 1847); Suez Canal, Egypt (Palombi 1928); Rovigno, Croatia (Vàtova 1928); Canary Islands (Cuadrado et al. 2017).

New record

Baía das Gatas, S„o Vicente, Cape Verde.

Remarks

Pseudoceros velutinus is known for its velvety black pigmentation, but the coloration varies with transmitted or reflected light. Fig. 7D shows the appearance of P. velutinus with transmitted light.

Notes

Published as part of Cuadrado, Daniel, Rodríguez, Jorge, Moro, Leopoldo, Grande, Cristina & Noreña, Carolina, 2021, Polycladida (Platyhelminthes, Rhabditophora) from Cape Verde and related regions of Macaronesia, pp. 1-43 in European Journal of Taxonomy 736 on pages 28-29, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2021.736.1249, http://zenodo.org/record/4561525

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
RCCN
Event date
2017-05-05
Verbatim event date
2017-05-05
Scientific name authorship
Blanchard
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Platyhelminthes
Order
Polycladida
Family
Pseudoceritidae
Genus
Pseudoceros
Species
velutinus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Pseudoceros velutinus (Blanchard, 1847) sec. Cuadrado, Rodríguez, Moro, Grande & Noreña, 2021

References

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