Doris kerguelenensis

• Main Author: Valdés, Ángel
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2002
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Mollusca; Gastropoda; Nudibranchia; Dorididae; Doris; Doris kerguelenensis; McMurdo Sound; New Harbor; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5110267; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5110267

DORIS KERGUELENENSIS (BERGH, 1884) (FIGS 11, 12) Archidoris kerguelenensis Bergh, 1884b: 85–89, pl. 1, figs 1–12. Archidoris australis Bergh, 1884b: 89–91, pl. 1, figs 13–18, pl. 2, fig. 13. Archidoris rubescens Bergh 1898: 501–503, pl. 29, figs 17–20. Austrodoris michaelseni Odhner, 1926: 68–71, pl. 2, figs 30-32, text figs 47-50. Austrodoris crenulata Odhner, 1926: 75–76, pl. 2, figs 38, 39, text fig. 54. Austrodoris macmurdensis Odhner, 1934: 260–263, pl. 2, figs 21–23, text figs 25-27. Austrodoris tomentosa Odhner, 1934: 265–267, pl. 2, figs 19, 20, text fig. 32. Austrodoris nivium Odhner, 1934: 267–269, pl. 2 figs 21–23, text figs 33-35. Austrodoris mishu Marcus, 1985: 219–222, figs 1–12. Austrodoris vicentei Marcus, 1985: 214, 217. Austrodoris georgiensis García et al. 1993: 417–421, figs 1–8. Type material For a list of the extant type material of the nominal species included in the genus Austrodoris see Wägele (1990). Additional material North-west of Explorer’s Cove, New Harbor, west side of McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, 17 December 1985, two specimens, 54–66 mm preserved length, leg. K. A. Miller (CASIZ 087312). External morphology The external morphology of this species has been described in detail by Wägele (1990). My specimens were preserved, so no data on the living animals are available. The general colour of the living animals is uniformly white (Wägele, 1990). The rhinophores and gill are also white. The whole dorsum is covered with rounded and simple tubercles varying in size and shape (Fig. 11D). The largest tubercles are situated in the central region of the body. The rhinophoral and branchial sheath are surrounded by tubercles similar to the rest of the dorsal tubercles. There are 7–9 tripinnate branchial leaves, forming a circle. The anal papilla is prominent, situated in the centre of the branchial circle of leaves. The rhinophores are elongate, having 32 lamellae in a 66-mm preserved length specimen. Ventrally there are no oral tentacles, but two blunt prolongations on each side of the mouth ...