Thorunna daniellae
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| genus = Thorunna
| species = daniellae
| authority = (Kay & Young, 1969)Kay E.A. & Young D.K. (1969). The Doridacea (Opisthobranchia; Mollusca) of the Hawaiian Islands. Pacific Science. 23: 172–231.
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Thorunna daniellae is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Chromodorididae.MolluscaBase (2018). [http://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=558680 Thorunna daniellae (Kay & Young, 1969).] Accessed on 2018-12-23.Rudman W.B. (1984) The Chromodorididae (Opisthobranchia: Mollusca) of the Indo-West Pacific: a review of the genera. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 81 (2/3): 115-273, page(s): 221
Distribution
Hawaiian islands, Midway, and Kure; widely distributed in the Indo-Pacific.Rudman, W.B., 2003 (October 4) [http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet/thordani Thorunna daniellae (Kay & Young, 1969).] [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
Description
The size of the body varies between 13 mm and 20 mm. This species is opaque white with a magenta line encircling the notum just inside the mantle margin. The rhinophore stalks are translucent, with the clubs orange-red on the anterior side and opaque white on the posterior side. The gills are opaque white with orange-red tips. In very young animals, the notum is translucent and has a herringbone pattern of embedded white spicules beginning between the rhinophores and ending at the gills.Pittman, C. & Fiene, P., 2018. [http://seaslugsofhawaii.com/species/Thorunna-daniellae-a.html Thorunna daniellae] Sea Slugs of Hawaii, accessed 2018-12-23.
Ecology
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External links
- {{Gastropods.com|key=0|id=50650|title=Thorunna daniellae|access-date=16 January 2019}}
- {{sealifephotos|558680}}
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