Cadlina dubia

Cadlina dubia is a species of sea slug or dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cadlinidae.[2][3]

Cadlina dubia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Doridina
Superfamily: Doridoidea
Family: Cadlinidae
Genus: Cadlina
Species:
C. dubia
Binomial name
Cadlina dubia
Edmunds, 1981[1]

Distribution

This species was described from two specimens found at 10 m depth off Tema, Ghana, 5.658°N 0.055°E / 5.658; 0.055.

Description

Measuring 2 and 7 mm in length alive, the two animals found were creamy white in colour. The mantle surface is smooth with minute spicules projecting and scattered small white spots which probably mark the position of glands. The pinkish viscera can be seen through the semi-translucent mantle. There are nine cream coloured glands on each side on the 7 mm animal; with five on one side, six on the other of the 2 mm specimen. Cadlina dubia is very similar to Cadlina rumia but differs in the thicker, more opaque mantle without papillae and broader foot.[1]

References
  1. Edmunds, M. (1981). Opisthobranchiate Mollusca from Ghana: Chromodorididae. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 72: 175-201
  2. 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, p. 243
  3. MolluscaBase (2018). Cadlina dubia Edmunds, 1981. Accessed on 2018-12-04.
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