Dermatobranchus albineus

Dermatobranchus albineus
Llandudno, South Africa
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Nudibranchia
Suborder:	Cladobranchia
Family:	Arminidae
Genus:	Dermatobranchus
Species:	D. albineus
Binomial name
Dermatobranchus albineus Gosliner & Fahey, 2011 [1]

Dermatobranchus albineus, common name the white-ridged nudibranch, is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Arminidae.[2]

Description

This species is small in size (up to 20 mm), with opaque white ridges along the body. The rhinophores (chemosensory tentacles) are small, oval-shaped, and feature longitudinal ridges. This is a pale-bodied nudibranch featuring raised, opaque white longitudinal ridges. [3]

Distribution

This species was described from Hottentots Huisie (Oudekraal), Atlantic coast, Cape Peninsula, Cape Province, South Africa 33°59.2407′S 18°20.81224′E at 7 m depth. Multiple specimens from this locality and east as far as Algoa Bay, Port Elizabeth were included in the original description.

References

1. Gosliner T.M. & Fahey S.J. (2011) Previously undocumented diversity and abundance of cryptic species: a phylogenetic analysis of Indo-Pacific Arminidae Rafinesque, 1814 (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) with descriptions of 20 new species of Dermatobranchus. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 161: 245–356.
2. Dermatobranchus albineus Gosliner & Fahey, 2011. 30 October 2024. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
3. Herbert, D.G., Jones, G.J. & Atkinson, L.J. (2018). Phylum Mollusca. In: Atkinson, L.J. and Sink, K.J. (eds) Field Guide to the Offshore Marine Invertebrates of South Africa. Pretoria: Malachite Marketing and Media. p. 289. doi:10.15493/SAEON.PUB.10000001. ISBN 978-1-86868-098-6. Retrieved 26 October 2024. This article incorporates text from this source, which is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

• Gosliner TM and Fahey SJ. (2011). "Previously undocumented diversity and abundance of cryptic species: a phylogenetic analysis of IndoPacific Arminidae Rafinesque, 1814 (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) with descriptions of 20 new species of Dermatobranchus". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 161 (2): 245–356.
• Zsilavecz, G. (2007). Nudibranchs of the Cape Peninsula and False Bay. Cape Town: Southern Underwater Research Group Press. p. 77.
• Jones, G. (2008). A Field Guide to the Marine Animals of the Cape Peninsula. Cape Town: Southern Underwater Research Group Press. p. 247.
• Gosliner, T. (2023). Southern African Sea Slugs. Cape Town: Southern Underwater Research Group Press.