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A. Geographical location of Mauritius in the Western Indian Ocean. B. Map of Mauritius with geographical coordinates. C. Photograph of shipwreck location. D. Photograph of shipwreck at Bain des Dames.
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To date, 179 species belonging to the gastropod infraclass Euthyneura are known from Mauritius. We report for the first time from Mauritius the chromodorid nudibranch, Hypselodoris infucata (Rüppell & Leuckart, 1830), based on 47 sites surveyed over 17 months. This species was previously known from the eastern Mediterranean Sea, Indo-Pacific Ocean,...
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... lagoons and 10 diving spots in Mauritius were surveyed over a period of 17 months (August 2018 to December 2019; Table 1). However, the newly recorded species was found only at one site, Bain des Dames, as shown in Figure 1. The rover diver and belt transect methods were conducted over reef and non-reef sites using both snorkeling and scuba diving. ...
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... genus Hypselodoris is one of the most diverse lineages within the Chromodorididae, with its possible origin in the Coral Triangle ( Epstein et al. 2019). Aside from our observation of H. infucata, Mauritian waters harbor nine other species of Hypselodoris: H. bullockii (Collingwood, 1881), H. carnea (Bergh, 1889), H. maculosa (Pease, 1871), H. maridadilus Rudman, 1977, H. nigrolineata (Eliot, 1904, H. nigrostriata (Eliot, 1904), H. pulchella (Rüppell & Leuckart, 1830), H. rosans (Bergh, 1889) and H. whitei (A. Adams & Reeve, 1850) (Ah-Shee-Tee et al. 2019). ...
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