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Berghia rissodominguezi Muniain & Ortea 1999

  • 1. Escuela Superior de Ciencias Marinas (ESCiMar), San Martín 247, San Antonio Oeste, Río Negro, Argentina.
  • 2. Escuela Superior de Ciencias Marinas (ESCiMar), San Martín 247, San Antonio Oeste, Río Negro, Argentina. & Centro de Investigación y Transferencia Tecnológica en Recursos Marinos Almirante Storni (CIMAS), Güemes 1030, San Antonio Oeste, Río Negro, Argentina.

Description

Berghia rissodominguezi Muniain & Ortea, 1999

(Figures 6A, 6B, 7A)

Material examined. Argentina, Río Negro, Caleta Los Hornitos, two specimens, intertidal, 23/02/2017 (ESCM-Ma-37).

Description. Length up to 30 mm. Body elongated, translucent white color, with oblique bright orange lines at the base of the cerata and rhinophores. Translucent cerata with white tip and a small, terminal cnidosac. Oral tentacles long, distal portion yellow. Rhinophores yellow (Figure 6B). Radular formula 25 x 0.1.0 (ESCM-Ma-37). Rachidian teeth bicurved with up to 45 denticles on each side of the central triangular cusp (Figure 7A).

Geographic distribution and depth range. Western Atlantic, from Florida to San Jose gulf, Argentina (Muniain & Ortea 1999, Padula et al. 2011). Found in soft and intertidal bottoms under rocks up to 15 m depth.

Biology. The white egg mass is a cylindrical belt with up to four complete turns in a spiral. The egg mass is deposited on rocks (Figure 6B).

Remarks. This species was described and illustrated by Muniain & Ortea (1999). It is a warm water species that extends its distribution to the Magallanes Province. This is the first record of the B. rissodominguezi in the San Matías gulf.

Notes

Published as part of Cetra, Nicolás & Roche, Andrea, 2023, Nudibranchia (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from San Matías Gulf, Northern Argentine Patagonia, pp. 455-473 in Zootaxa 5244 (5) on pages 466-467, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5244.5.3, http://zenodo.org/record/7663830

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Event date
2017-02-23
Verbatim event date
2017-02-23
Scientific name authorship
Muniain & Ortea
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Order
Nudibranchia
Family
Aeolidiidae
Genus
Berghia
Species
rissodominguezi
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Berghia rissodominguezi Muniain, 1999 sec. Cetra & Roche, 2023

References

  • Muniain, C. & Ortea, J. (1999) First records of the genus Berghia Trinchese, 1877 (Opisthobranchia: Aeolidiidae) from Argentina, with description of a new species. Avicennia, 10 / 11, 143 - 150.
  • Padula, V., Bahia, J., Vargas, C. & Lindner, A. (2011) Mollusca, Nudibranchia: New records and southward range extensions in Santa Catarina, southern Brazil. Check List, 7 (6), 806 - 808. https: // doi. org / 10.15560 / 11037