Felimare picta

Felimare picta

Felimare picta at a depth of 17 meters
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Nudipleura clade Nudibranchia
Superfamily:	Doridoidea
Family:	Chromodorididae
Genus:	Felimare Rudman, 1987
Species:	F. picta
Binomial name
*Felimare picta* (Schultz in Philippi, 1836)^[1]
Synonyms^[2]
Chromodoris cantrainii Bergh, 1879 Chromodoris elegans (Cantraine, 1835) Chromodoris valenciennesi (Cantraine, 1841) Doris calcarae Verany, 1846 Doris elegans Cantraine, 1835 (invalid: junior homonym of Doris elegans Quoy & Gaimard, 1832) Doris nardi Verany, 1846 Doris picta Schultz in Philippi, 1836 (basionym) ^[1] Doris scacchi Delle Chiaje, 1841 Doris valenciennesi Cantraine, 1841 Glossodoris edenticulata White, 1952 Glossodoris picta (Schultz in Philippi, 1836) Glossodoris valenciennesi (Cantraine, 1841) Glossodoris webbi (d'Orbigny, 1839) Goniodoris elegans (Cantraine, 1835) Hypselodoris edenticulata (White, 1952) Hypselodoris elegans (Cantraine, 1835) Hypselodoris picta (Schultz in Philippi, 1836) Hypselodoris tema Edmunds, 1981 Hypselodoris valenciennesi (Cantraine, 1841) Hypselodoris webbi (d'Orbigny, 1839) Polycera webbi d'Orbigny, 1839

Felimare picta is a species of colorful sea slug or dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chromodorididae.^[2]

Subspecies

The subspecies of Felimare picta have yet to be renamed:

Felimare (Hypselodoris) picta lajensis Troncoso, Garcia & Urgorri, 1998^[3]
Felimare (Hypselodoris) picta picta (Schultz in Philippi, 1836)
Felimare (Hypselodoris) picta tema (Edmunds, 1981)
Felimare (Hypselodoris) picta verdensis Ortea, Valdés & García-Gómez, 1966^[3]
Felimare (Hypselodoris) webbi (d'Orbigny, 1839)
Felimare (Hypselodoris) azorica Ortea, Valdés & García-Gómez, 1996 has become a synonym of Felimare azorica (Ortea, Valdés & García-Gómez, 1996)

Felimare picta at Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary, Savannah, Georgia

A close up of the gills of Felimare picta

Distribution

Felimare picta lives in rocky seabeds throughout the Mediterranean Sea (Greece), European waters (Spain, Portugal), the Eastern North Atlantic Ocean (Azores) and the Gulf of Mexico.^[4]

Type locality of Felimare picta is Palermo, Sicily.^[1]

Description

This nudibranch grows to about 20 cm (8 inches) long and feeds on various sponges.^[4]

Habitat

Minimum recorded depth is 0 m.^[5] Maximum recorded depth is 55 m.^[5]

References

1 2 3 Philippi R. A. (1836). Enumeratio molluscorum Siciliae cum viventium tum in tellure tertiaria fossilium, quae in itinere suo observavit. Vol. 1. Schropp, Berlin [Berolini] xiv + 267 p., pl. 1-12. page 105.
1 2 Bouchet, P. (2012). Felimare picta. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=597522 on 2012-05-14
1 2 Gofas, S. (2009). Hypselodoris picta (Schultz in Philippi, 1836). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2009) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=139154 on 2010-09-11
1 2 Wright, M.; Sparrow, Giles (2003). Expert Guide: Marine Life From Tropical Reef Fist to Mighty Sharks. Brown Books Ltd. p. 68. ISBN 1-897884-90-7.
1 2 Welch J. J. (2010). "The "Island Rule" and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". PLoS ONE 5(1): e8776. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008776.

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.
Turgeon, D.; Quinn, J.F.; Bogan, A.E.; Coan, E.V.; Hochberg, F.G.; Lyons, W.G.; Mikkelsen, P.M.; Neves, R.J.; Roper, C.F.E.; Rosenberg, G.; Roth, B.; Scheltema, A.; Thompson, F.G.; Vecchione, M.; Williams, J.D. (1998). Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: mollusks. 2nd ed. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, 26. American Fisheries Society: Bethesda, MD (USA). ISBN 1-888569-01-8. IX, 526 + cd-rom pp. page(s): 127
Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
Debelius, H. & Kuiter, R.H. (2007) Nudibranchs of the world. ConchBooks, Frankfurt, 360 pp. ISBN 978-3-939767-06-0 page(s): 113
Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. García. 2009. Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
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
F Almada, A Levy, JI Robalo, Not so sluggish: the success of the Felimare picta complex (Gastropoda, Nudibranchia) crossing Atlantic biogeographic barriers; peerj.com (2015)

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