Felimare tema
{{Short description|Species of gastropod}}
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| genus = Felimare
| species = tema
| authority = (Edmunds, 1981)Edmunds, M. (1981). Opisthobranchiate Mollusca from Ghana: Chromodorididae. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 72: 175-201.
page(s): 189-192; figs 7-8, 12C,D
| synonyms = {{species list | Hypselodoris tema | Edmunds, 1981
| Hypselodoris picta tema |Edmunds, 1981 }}
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Felimare tema is a species of sea slug or dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Chromodorididae.MolluscaBase (2018). [http://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=597840 Felimare tema (Edmunds, 1981).] Accessed on 2018-12-28.
Distribution
This species was described from three specimens measuring {{cvt|65-90|mm}} collected near Tema, Ghana in depths of {{cvt|55-0|m}}. It has been reported from Senegal, Equatorial Guinea and Cape Verde.
Description
Felimare tema is similar in appearance to Felimare picta but with a dark blackish green background colour and with a broad orange border to the mantle, interrupted by violet areas.Rudman, W.B., 2003 (April 16) [http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/hypstema Hypselodoris picta tema Edmunds, 1981.] [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. DNA evidence shows it is clearly a distinct species from Felimare picta, but probably synonymous with Felimare verdensis.Rudman, W.B., 2006 (June 8) [http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet/hypsverd Hypselodoris picta verdensis Ortea, Valdés & García-Gómez, 1996.] [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.{{cite journal | doi=10.1080/11250003.2016.1150525 | title=A DNA-barcoding approach to the phenotypic diversity of Mediterranean species of Felimare Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1967 (Mollusca: Gastropoda), with a preliminary phylogenetic analysis | date=2016 | last1=Furfaro | first1=G. | last2=Modica | first2=M. V. | last3=Oliverio | first3=M. | last4=Mariottini | first4=P. | journal=Italian Journal of Zoology | volume=83 | issue=2 | pages=195–207 | s2cid=87995441 | doi-access=free | hdl=11573/1050531 | hdl-access=free }}{{cite journal | doi=10.7717/peerj.1561 | doi-access=free | title=Not so sluggish: The success of the Felimare picta complex (Gastropoda, Nudibranchia) crossing Atlantic biogeographic barriers | date=2016 | last1=Almada | first1=Frederico | last2=Levy | first2=André | last3=Robalo | first3=Joana I. | journal=PeerJ | volume=4 | pages=e1561 | pmid=26823995 | pmc=4730986 }}
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