Dendronotus orientalis

Dendronotus orientalis
Dendronotus orientalis from San Francisco Bay, California
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Dexiarchia
clade Cladobranchia
clade Dendronotida

Superfamily: Tritonioidea
Family: Dendronotidae
Genus: Dendronotus
Species: D. orientalis
Binomial name
Dendronotus orientalis
(Baba, 1932)[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Pseudobornella orientalis Baba, 1932

Dendronotus orientalis is a species of sea slug, a dendronotid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dendronotidae.[2]

Distribution

This species was described from Misaki Marine Biological Station, Moroiso, Japan. It has been reported from the Philippines and China.[3] In March and April 2016, a group of 16 breeding Dendronotus orientalis were reported from the San Francisco Bay in Redwood City, California.[4] A specimen from Daisong Bay, near Xiamen, China was sequenced for the 16S ribosomal RNA and Histone H3 genes and found to cluster within the genus Dendronotus prompting the change of name from Pseudobornella orientalis to Dendronotus orientalis.[5]

Description

Dendronotus orientalis[6]

The morphology of this species is redescribed in detail by Pola et al. (2009).[7]

References

  1. ↑ Baba K. (1932). Pseudobornella orientalis, nov. gen. et sp. from Japan. Annotationes Zoologicae Japonenses 13: 369–376.
  2. 1 2 Bouchet, P. (2015). Dendronotus orientalis (Baba, 1932). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-02-09.
  3. ↑ Rudman, W.B., 2002 (April 8) Pseudobornella orientalis Baba, 1932. [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
  4. ↑ "Dendronotus orientalis". iNaturalist.org. Retrieved 2016-05-19.
  5. ↑ Pola M., Gosliner T.M. (2010). The first molecular phylogeny of cladobranchian opisthobranchs (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Nudibranchia). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 56: 931-41. PMID 20460158 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2010.05.003
  6. ↑ "Dendronotus orientalis". iNaturalist.org. Retrieved 2016-05-19.
  7. ↑ Pola, M., Rudman, W.R., Gosliner, T.M. (2009). Systematics and preliminary phylogeny of Bornellidae (Mollusca: Nudibranchia: Dendronotina) based on morphological characters with description of four new species. Zootaxa 1975, 1–57.
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