Trapania graeffei

Trapania graeffei
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Euctenidiacea
clade Doridacea

Superfamily: Onchidoridoidea
Family: Goniodorididae
Genus: Trapania
Species: T. graeffei
Binomial name
Trapania graeffei
(Bergh, 1881)[1]
Synonyms

Drepania graeffei, Bergh, 1881

Trapania graeffei is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Goniodorididae.[2]

Distribution

This species was described from Tergeste, Italy.[1] It does not seem to have been seen since 1879.

Description

This goniodorid nudibranch is translucent white with a rose-red tint and a scattering of brown spots all over the body. The rhinophores and gills are rose-red. "Color pellucide et clare rosaceus, supra punctis et maculis minutis fuscis ubique sparsis; appendices rhinophoriales et branchiales rosaceae."[1]

Ecology

Like other species in this genus Trapania graeffei probably feeds on Entoprocta, which often grow on sponges and other living substrata.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Bergh, L. S. R. 1881. Beiträge zu einer Monographie der Polyceraden, II. Verhandlungen der königlichkaiserlich Zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien (Abhandlungen) 30:629-668, pls. X-XV.
  2. ↑ Gofas, S. (2015). Trapania graeffei. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-10-19
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