Dermatobranchus fortunatus explained

Dermatobranchus fortunatus is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Arminidae.^[1]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indo-Pacific region. It was described from Java, Indonesia. It has been reported from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia,^[2] Okinawa, Japan,^[3] the Seychelles, Marshall Islands, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, eastern Malaysia, and the Philippines.^[4]

Notes and References

1. Bouchet, P. (2015). Dermatobranchus fortunatus. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-09-30
2. Marshall J.G., Willan R.C. 1999. Nudibranchs of Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef. Leiden: Backhuys.
3. Bolland R. 2003. Okinawa SlugSite. Available at: http://rfbolland.com/okislugs/index.html
4. Gosliner T.M. & Fahey S.J. (2011) Previously undocumented diversity and abundance of cryptic species: a phylogenetic analysis of Indo-Pacific Arminidae Rafinesque, 1814 (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) with descriptions of 20 new species of Dermatobranchus. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 161: 245–356.