Fiona pinnata
Creators
Description
Fiona pinnata (Eschscholtz, 1831)
(Figure 31 I)
Material examined. Thirteen specimens. MB28-004483, 7spcs., 18 Feb. 2012, 10– 20mm; MHN-YT211, 19 Feb. 2012, 19mm; MB28-004484, 19 Feb. 2012, 12mm; MB28-004485, 4 spcs, 19 Deb. 2012, 11– 20mm all found floating on driftwood in Zavora. AMC.476792, 19 Feb. 2012, 19mm, on floating wood in Zavora.
Habitats. Drifting wood.
Occurrences. Zavora.
Geographic distribution. Globally distributed in tropical and subtropical regions (Tickey et al. 2016) Japan (Baba 1949), Korea, Vanuatu (Gosliner et al. 2008), Australia (Burn 2006), Tanzania (Gosliner et al. 2008), South Africa (Gosliner 1987) and Mozambique (Macnae & Kalk 1958; Tickey et al. 2016)
Remarks. In Tickey et al. (2016), molecular analyses revealed that Fiona pinnata is a cryptic species complex. The species from Mozambique belong to the “Lineage B” from that study.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Eschscholtz
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Order
- Nudibranchia
- Family
- Fionidae
- Genus
- Fiona
- Species
- pinnata
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Fiona pinnata (Eschscholtz, 1831) sec. Tibiriçá, Pola & Cervera, 2017
References
- Eschscholtz, J. F. (1831) Zoologischer Atlas, enthaltend Abbildungen und Beschreibungen neuer Thierarten, wahrend des Flottencapitains von Kotzebue zweiter Reise um die Welt, auf der Russisch-Kaiserlichen Kriegsschlupp Predpriaetie in den Jahren 1823 - 1826. Erstes Heft, Berlin, 81 pp.
- Baba, K. (1949) Opisthobranchia of Sagami Bay. Iwanami Shoten, Tokyo, 149 pp.
- Burn, R. (2006) A checklist and bibliography of the Opisthobranchia (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Victoria and the Bass Strait area, south-eastern Australia. Museum Victoria Science Reports, 10, 1 - 42.
- Gosliner, T. M. (1987) Nudibranchs of southern Africa: a guide to opisthobranch molluscs of southern Africa. Sea Challengers, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, 136 pp.
- Macnae, W. & Kalk, M. (1958) A natural history of Inhaca Island, Mozambique. Witwatersrand Univ. Press, Johannesburg, 163 pp.