Goniobranchus tritos

{{Short description|Species of gastropod}}

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| genus = Goniobranchus

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| authority = (Yonow, 1994)Yonow, N. (1994). Opisthobranchs from the Maldive Islands, including descriptions of seven new species (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Revue Française d'Aquariologie. 20: 4-25.

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Goniobranchus tritos is a species of colourful sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chromodorididae.MolluscaBase (2018). [http://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=597376 Goniobranchus tritos (Yonow, 1994).] Accessed on 2019-01-07.Johnson R.F. & Gosliner T.M. (2012) [http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0033479 Traditional taxonomic groupings mask evolutionary history: A molecular phylogeny and new classification of the chromodorid nudibranchs.] PLoS ONE 7(4): e33479

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Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Maldives.Rudman, W.B., 1999 (October 16) [http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet/chrotrit Chromodoris tritos Yonow, 1994.] [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.

Description

Goniobranchus tritos has a cream coloured mantle with round black spots, each of which is outlined with a white line. There is a broad band of lilac-grey around the mantle and a narrow line of opaque white at the edge. The gills and rhinophores are grey with white highlights. The body reaches a length of 50 mm.Debelius, H. & Kuiter, R.H. (2007) Nudibranchs of the world. ConchBooks, Frankfurt, 360 pp. {{ISBN|978-3-939767-06-0}} page 142

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