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First record of long-tailed pelagic sea slug Stylocheilus longicauda (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia) from southwest coast of India

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Relation http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/10316/
http://mbai.org.in/php/journaldload.php?id=2324&bkid=111
 
Title First record of long-tailed pelagic
sea slug Stylocheilus longicauda
(Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia) from
southwest coast of India
 
Creator Chinnadurai, S
Bhave, Vishal Jayant
Apte, Deepak
Mohamed, K S
 
Subject New record
Gastropods
 
Description The long-tailed sea slug Stylocheilus longicauda was recorded
for the first time from southwest coast of India. A single
specimen measuring a total length of 70.51mm was collected
from a floating bottle, along with bunch of goose-neck
barnacles from Arabian sea off Narakkal, Vypeen Island, Kochi.
Earlier identifications were made based on the morphology of
the animal without resorting to description of radula. This
makes it difficult to differentiate the species from Stylocheilus
striatus which has similar characters. The present description
details the external and radular morphology of Stylocheilus
longicauda.
 
Publisher Marine Biological Association of India
 
Date 2014
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/10316/1/56-2-Chinnadurai_JMBAI.pdf
Chinnadurai, S and Bhave, Vishal Jayant and Apte, Deepak and Mohamed, K S (2014) First record of long-tailed pelagic sea slug Stylocheilus longicauda (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia) from southwest coast of India. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India, 56 (2). pp. 81-84.