Chromodoris colemani is a species of colourful sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Chromodorididae.[2]
Named after Neville Coleman, an Australian diver and publisher of several popular books on diving and marine biology of the South Pacific area.[3]
This species was described from Lizard Island, Queensland, Australia. It has been reported from Japan, the Marshall Islands, the Philippines and Western Australia.[4]
Chromodoris colemani has a white mantle with typically five, thin, longitudinal, black lines interspersed with diffuse light brown lines. The two outer lines start in front of the rhinophores and run parallel to the mantle rim, meeting behind the gills but usually not joining. The mid dorsal line starts as a circular patch in front of the rhinophores and runs to the gills. There is a broad submarginal band of pale orange.[1] Animals from the Marshall Islands are the best fit with the original description. They suggest that the area covered with black lines can be pale blue and the lines can break into dashes and have a marginal rather than submarginal orange border to the mantle.[5] There is a suggestion that this species can mimic Chromodoris westraliensis[6] but all animals from the western Australian and Philippines areas are a poor fit for the original description.
Chromodoris colemani is a species of colourful sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Chromodorididae.
Named after Neville Coleman, an Australian diver and publisher of several popular books on diving and marine biology of the South Pacific area.
Chromodoris colemani es una especie de molusco nudibranquio de la familia Chromodorididae.[4]
Como todos los opistobránquios, son hermafroditas y producen tanto huevos como esperma. El conducto genital y la prominente abertura genital están situados cerca de la cabeza, en el lado derecho del cuerpo. Tras la fertilización producen larvas planctónicas, que cuentan con una concha para protegerse durante la fase larval, y que, al evolucionar a su forma definitiva la pierden.[5]
Chromodoris colemani es una especie de molusco nudibranquio de la familia Chromodorididae.
Chromodoris colemani is een slakkensoort uit de familie van de Chromodorididae.[1] De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1982 door Rudman.
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