Check List 13(5): 435-441, doi: 10.15560/13.5.435
First record of the sea slug Stylocheilus striatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825) (Anaspidea, Aplysiidae) and swarming behavior for Bazaruto Archipelago, Mozambique with the first record of Pleurobranchus forskalii Rüppel & Leuckart, 1828 (Nudipleura, Pleurobranchidae) for Bazaruto Island (Gastropoda, Heterobranchia)
Adrienne Jochum‡, Adrien Favre§|‡ Naturhistorisches Museum der Burgergemeinde Bern, Bern, Switzerland§ Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany| Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Corresponding author: Adrienne Jochum ( adrienne_jochum@fake_email.org ) Academic editor: Leonardo Santos de Souza © 2017 Adrienne Jochum, Adrien Favre. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation:
Jochum A, Favre A (2017) First record of the sea slug Stylocheilus striatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825) (Anaspidea, Aplysiidae) and swarming behavior for Bazaruto Archipelago, Mozambique with the first record of Pleurobranchus forskalii Rüppel & Leuckart, 1828 (Nudipleura, Pleurobranchidae) for Bazaruto Island (Gastropoda, Heterobranchia). Check List 13(5): 435-441. https://doi.org/10.15560/13.5.435 |  |
Abstract
Two heterobranch species, Stylocheilus striatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825) (Anaspidea, Aplysiidae) and Pleurobranchus forskalii Rüppel & Leuckart, 1828 (Nudipleura, Pleurobranchidae) are reported for the first time for Bazaruto Island, Mozambique. Swarming behavior of Stylocheilus striatus, which was previously described for other localities, was also observed for the first time in the Bazaruto Archipelago. The sea slugs were photographed in situ and identified in sync with their species descriptions, photographic databases and the current literature.
Keywords
Mollusca; Opistobranchia; East Africa; Anantara Resort; Western Indian Ocean; Inhambane Province