- Source: Dermatobranchus albineus
Dermatobranchus albineus, common name the white-ridged nudibranch, is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Arminidae.
Description
This species is small in size (up to 20 mm), with opaque white ridges along the body. The rhinophores (chemosensory tentacles) are small, oval-shaped, and feature longitudinal ridges. This is a pale-bodied nudibranch featuring raised, opaque white longitudinal ridges.
Distribution
This species was described from Hottentots Huisie (Oudekraal), Atlantic coast, Cape Peninsula, Cape Province, South Africa 33°59.2407′S 18°20.81224′E at 7 m depth. Multiple specimens from this locality and east as far as Algoa Bay, Port Elizabeth were included in the original description.
References
Gosliner TM and Fahey SJ. (2011). "Previously undocumented diversity and abundance of cryptic species: a phylogenetic analysis of IndoPacific Arminidae Rafinesque, 1814 (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) with descriptions of 20 new species of Dermatobranchus". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 161 (2): 245–356.
Zsilavecz, G. (2007). Nudibranchs of the Cape Peninsula and False Bay. Cape Town: Southern Underwater Research Group Press. p. 77.
Jones, G. (2008). A Field Guide to the Marine Animals of the Cape Peninsula. Cape Town: Southern Underwater Research Group Press. p. 247.
Gosliner, T. (2023). Southern African Sea Slugs. Cape Town: Southern Underwater Research Group Press.
