Hypselodoris infucata (Rüppell & Leuckart, 1830) crawling on sand.

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... white and dusky grey laterally. The entire dorsum has scattered and variously sized yellow, dark blue, and black spotting, with the yellow spots larger than the black ones. The perfoliate rhinophores are white with 14 red lamellae. The gill consists of 11 white unipinnate branchial leaves, with a red line along the internal and external edge (Fig. 2). Distribution. This species has a broad distribution in the Indo-west and central Pacific oceans. It is a Lessepsian migrant which has been observed from the Eastern Mediterranean coasts of Turkey ( Çevik and Öztürk 2001;Gosliner et al. 2008). It has also been reported from Hawaii (Gosliner and Johnson 1999;Gosliner et al. ...

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... Barash and Danin 1992;Gosliner et al. 2008), Tanzania (Edmunds 1971), Mozambique ( Tibiriçá et al. 2017), South Africa (Debelius 1996), Madagascar (Gosliner et al. 2008), and Mauritius (this study) Remarks. We found a group of four individuals of H. infucata crawling on sand during a daylight survey near a shipwreck at Bain des Dames (Fig. 2). Compared to other sequences of H. infucata from GenBank, our specimen was most similar to samples from Madagascar, reporting a genetic distance of 0.457% (Table 3, Fig. ...