Hypselodoris picta tema
Edmunds, 1981
Order: NUDIBRANCHIA
Suborder: DORIDINA
Superfamily: EUDORIDOIDEA
Family: Chromodorididae
DISTRIBUTION
West Africa [Ghana, Senegal]
PHOTO
Dakar, Senegal. April 1999. Upper: Almadies; Depth: 14m. Lower: Madeleine Isles; Depth: 12m
Described from Ghana, by Edmunds (1981), as Hypselodoris tema. Ortea et. al. (1996) consider it to be a subspecies of Hypselodoris picta. The relationship between all the colour forms of H. picta are still not clear to me but I am putting this on a separate subspecies page.
Reference:
• Edmunds, M. (1981) Opisthobranchiate Mollusca from Ghana: Chromodorididae. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 72(2): 175-201.
• Ortea, J., Valdés, A. & and García-Gómez, J.C. (1996) Revisión de las especies atlánticas de la familia Chromodorididae (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) de grupo cromático azul. [Review of the Atlantic species of the family Chromodorididae (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) of the blue chromatic group.] Avicennia, 1996, Suppl. 1: 1-165.
Rudman, W.B., 2003 (April 16) Hypselodoris picta tema Edmunds, 1981. [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet/hypstema
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