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Gastropoda: : Doridoidea: Discodorididae

Jorunna spazzola (Er. Marcus, 1955)


Range: 25.5°N to 25°S; 81.5°W to 42.02°W
Depth: 0 to 1.5 m (live 0 to 1.5 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 36  mm

Synonymy

Awuka spazzola Er. Marcus, 1955
Discodoris mortenseni Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1963

Details


Awuka spazzola Er. Marcus, 1955, p. 156-158, fig. 180-192
[Basis of the current name]
Type Locality: Island of Sao Sebastiao
Range: 25°N to 25°S; 80.3°W to 42.02°W
Depth: 0 to 1 m (live 0 to 1 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 12 mm
Distribution: USA: Florida: Florida Keys; Honduras, Costa Rica; ABC Islands: Curacao; Turks and Caicos, Cuba: unlocalized; Virgin Islands, Barbados, Brazil: Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo
References: Er. Marcus (1955) l; Er. Marcus (1958b) E; Ev. Marcus (1970a) SW; Edmunds & Just (1985) LNWM

Discodoris mortenseni Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1963, p. 30-32, figs. 36-39
[Synonym]
Type Locality: Piscadera Baai, Curaçao
Range: 25.5°N to 9.4°N; 81.5°W to 61°W
Depth: 1.5 m (live 1.5 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 36 mm
Distribution: USA: Florida: East Florida; Panama; ABC Islands: Curacao; Cayman Islands: Grand Cayman Island; Puerto Rico; Trinidad & Tobago: Tobago
References: Marcus & Marcus (1963) E; Ev. Marcus (1972a) N{W}; Bertsch (1975) DdSM; Hess & Abbott (1994) W; Valdés et al. (2006) s?


Partial List of References

Marcus, E. 1955. Opisthobranchia from Brazil Bol. Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciêncies e Letras da Universidade de Sao Paulo, Zoologia 20 89-200, pl. 1-30.
Marcus, E. d. B.-R. and E. Marcus. 1963. Opisthobranchs from the Lesser Antilles Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands 19(79) 1-76.

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