On the occurrence of Elysia gordanae Thompson & Jaklin, 1988 (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia) in East Mediterranean Sea

D. Poursanidis; D. Koutsoubas

DOI:10.1007/s12526-015-0318-8

Corpus ID: 36800100

On the occurrence of Elysia gordanae Thompson & Jaklin, 1988 (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia) in East Mediterranean Sea

@article{Poursanidis2015OnTO,
  title={On the occurrence of Elysia gordanae Thompson & Jaklin, 1988 (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia) in East Mediterranean Sea},
  author={D. Poursanidis and D. Koutsoubas},
  journal={Marine Biodiversity},
  year={2015},
  volume={46},
  pages={5-6}
}

D. Poursanidis, D. Koutsoubas

Published 2015

Geography

Marine Biodiversity

In the East Mediterranean, five species of the family Plakobranchidae have been recorded (Koutsoubas and Koukouras 1993; Turkmen and Demirsoy 2009). Elysia gordanae Thompson& Jaklin 1988 is a small elysiid, between 10 and 17 mm in length, and can be found in shallow waters on rocky bottoms. It feeds upon Acetabularia acetabulum (Linnaeus) P.C. Silva 1952 and other filamentous algae. In the summer of 2012, a survey was conducted in the area of Kouremenos in eastern Crete by a team of two divers… CONTINUE READING

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