Dermatobranchus albineus
{{short description|Nudibranch in the family Arminidae}}
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| taxon = Dermatobranchus albineus
| authority = Gosliner & Fahey, 2011 Gosliner T.M. & Fahey S.J. (2011) Previously undocumented diversity and abundance of cryptic species: a phylogenetic analysis of Indo-Pacific Arminidae Rafinesque, 1814 (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) with descriptions of 20 new species of Dermatobranchus. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 161: 245–356.
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Dermatobranchus albineus, common name the white-ridged nudibranch, is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Arminidae.{{WRMS species|558973 |Dermatobranchus albineus Gosliner & Fahey, 2011|30 October 2024}}
Description
This species is small in size (up to 20 mm), with opaque white ridges along the body. The rhinophores (chemosensory tentacles) are small, oval-shaped, and feature longitudinal ridges. This is a pale-bodied nudibranch featuring raised, opaque white longitudinal ridges. {{cite book |last1=Herbert, D.G., Jones, G.J. & Atkinson, L.J. |title=Phylum Mollusca. In: Atkinson, L.J. and Sink, K.J. (eds) Field Guide to the Offshore Marine Invertebrates of South Africa |date=2018 |publisher=Malachite Marketing and Media |location=Pretoria |page=289 |doi=10.15493/SAEON.PUB.10000001 |url=https://doi.org/10.15493/SAEON.PUB.10000001 |isbn=978-1-86868-098-6|access-date=26 October 2024}}{{Creative Commons text attribution notice|cc=bysa4|from this source=yes}}
Distribution
This species was described from Hottentots Huisie (Oudekraal), Atlantic coast, Cape Peninsula, Cape Province, South Africa {{coords|33|59.2407|S|18|20.81224|E}} at 7 m depth. Multiple specimens from this locality and east as far as Algoa Bay, Port Elizabeth were included in the original description.
References
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- {{cite journal |last1=Gosliner TM and Fahey SJ. |title=Previously undocumented diversity and abundance of cryptic species: a phylogenetic analysis of IndoPacific Arminidae Rafinesque, 1814 (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) with descriptions of 20 new species of Dermatobranchus |journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |date=2011 |volume=161 |issue=2 |pages=245-356}}
- {{cite book |last1=Zsilavecz |first1=G. |title=Nudibranchs of the Cape Peninsula and False Bay. |date=2007 |publisher=Southern Underwater Research Group Press |location=Cape Town |page=77}}
- {{cite book |last1=Jones |first1=G. |title=A Field Guide to the Marine Animals of the Cape Peninsula |date=2008 |publisher=Southern Underwater Research Group Press |location=Cape Town |page=247}}
- {{cite book |last1=Gosliner |first1=T. |title=Southern African Sea Slugs |date=2023 |publisher=Southern Underwater Research Group Press |location=Cape Town}}
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