Doriprismatica kulonba

Doriprismatica kulonba is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chromodorididae.[2] This species was found to belong in a clade with Doriprismatica atromarginata in a molecular phylogeny study.[3]

Doriprismatica kulonba
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Doridina
Superfamily: Doridoidea
Family: Chromodorididae
Genus: Doriprismatica
Species:
D. kulonba
Binomial name
Doriprismatica kulonba
(Burn, 1966)[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Digidentis kulonba (Burn, 1966)
  • Glossodoris kulonba (Burn, 1966)
  • Hypselodoris kulonba Burn, 1966 (basionym)

Distribution

This species is known only from southeastern Australian, Victoria and Northern Tasmania.[4][5][6]

Description

Doriprismatica kulonba has a wide mantle overlap and very convoluted mantle margin. It is entirely white in colour apart from a thin band of milky yellow at the edge of the mantle and foot.[7][8][9][10]

References
  1. Burn, R., (1966). On three new Chromodoridinae from Australia (Opisthobranchia: Nudibranchia). The Veliger, 8: 191-197.
  2. MolluscaBase (2018). Doriprismatica kulonba (Burn, 1966). Accessed on 2019-01-31.
  3. Johnson R.F. & Gosliner T.M. (2012) Traditional taxonomic groupings mask evolutionary history: A molecular phylogeny and new classification of the chromodorid nudibranchs. PLoS ONE 7(4): e33479.
  4. Rudman, W.B., 2006 (July 11) Digidentis kulonba (Burn, 1966). [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
  5. Rudman W.B. (1984) The Chromodorididae (Opisthobranchia: Mollusca) of the Indo-West Pacific: a review of the genera. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 81 (2/3): 115-273. page(s): 165
  6. Burn R. (2006) A checklist and bibliography of the Opisthobranchia (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Victoria and the Bass Strait area, south-eastern Australia. Museum Victoria Science Reports 10:1–42
  7. Rudman W.B. (1985) The Chromodorididae (Opisthobranchia: Mollusca) of the Indo-West Pacific: Chromodoris aureomarginata, C. verrieri and C. fidelis colour groups. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 83: 241-299. page(s): 256
  8. Rudman, W.B. (1986). The Chromodorididae (Opisthobranchia: Mollusca) of the Indo-West Pacific: Noumea purpurea and Chromodoris decora colour groups. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 86 (4): 309-353. page(s): 340
  9. Rudman W.B. (1990) The Chromodorididae (Opisthobranchia: Mollusca) of the Indo-West Pacific: further species of Glossodoris, Thorunna and the Chromodoris aureomarginata colour group. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 100: 263-326 page(s): 264
  10. Debelius, H. & Kuiter, R.H. (2007) Nudibranchs of the world. ConchBooks, Frankfurt, 360 pp. ISBN 978-3-939767-06-0 page(s): 206
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