Glossodoris cincta

Glossodoris cincta
With the cleaning shrimp Zenopontonia rex
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Nudibranchia
Family:	Chromodorididae
Genus:	Glossodoris
Species:	G. cincta
Binomial name
Glossodoris cincta (Bergh, 1888)[1]

Glossodoris cincta is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chromodorididae. This name has been extensively used for a group of similarly coloured species, some of which are unnamed.[2]

Distribution

This species was described from Ile Marianne, Fouquets Reef, Mauritius. This species has been reported in error widely in the Indo-Pacific region but these reports should be referred to Glossodoris acosti or undescribed Glossodoris species.[2] The only reliable recent records are from Réunion.[3]

Description

Glossodoris cincta has a mantle which is tawny brown with blue-white dots and a dark blue margin to the mantle which is separated from the brown by a thin grey line. The rhinophores are dark brown with blue-white dots. The living holotype was 60 mm (2.4 in) in length.[1][2][3][4]

Gallery

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  Frontal closeup of Glossodoris cincta
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  Glossodoris cincta at Lembeh Bali, 2011
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  Glossodoris cincta
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  Glossodoris cincta at Wakatobi National Park Indonesia, 2015
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  Glossodoris cincta

References

1. Bergh, L.S.R. (1888–1889). Nudibranchien vom Meere der Insel Mauritius. In: Reisen im Archipel der Philippinen von Dr. C. Semper, vol. 2: Malakologische Untersuchungen. part 3, August 2, 1888; pp. 815–872, pl. 82–84, Casella cincta page 838, pl. LXXXVII, fig. 9, LXXX fig. 22–26, LXXXII, fig. 9–12
2. Matsuda, Shayle B. & Gosliner, Terrence M. (2018). "Glossing over cryptic species: Descriptions of four new species of Glossodoris and three new species of Doriprismatica (Nudibranchia: Chromodorididae)". Zootaxa. 4444 (5): 501–529 [p. 519, fig. 10]. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4444.5.1. PMID 30313904.
3. Bidgrain, P., 2019. Glossodoris cf. cincta South-west Indian Ocean Sea Slugs, accessed 2019-01-26.
4. Gosliner, T.M., Behrens, D.W. & Valdés, Á., 2018. Nudibranch and Sea Slug Identification - Indo-Pacific. New World Publications; 2nd Revised, Updated edition. 452 pp. ISBN 1878348671, ISBN 978-1878348678, p. 164

External links

• Photos of Glossodoris cincta on Sealife Collection