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Second record of the Indo-Pacific nudibranch Polycera hedgpethi from Atlantic European waters (Gastropoda, Nudibranchia, Polyceridae)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2015

Pablo Escribano-Álvarez  and
Pablo J. López-González
Pablo Escribano-Álvarez*
Affiliation:
Biodiversidad y Ecología de Invertebrados Marinos (BEIM), Departamento de Zoología, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Sevilla, Avenida Reina Mercedes, 6, 41012-Sevilla, Spain
Pablo J. López-González
Affiliation:
Biodiversidad y Ecología de Invertebrados Marinos (BEIM), Departamento de Zoología, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Sevilla, Avenida Reina Mercedes, 6, 41012-Sevilla, Spain
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: P. Escribano-Álvarez, Biodiversidad y Ecología de Invertebrados Marinos (BEIM), Departamento de Zoología, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de SevillaAvenida Reina Mercedes, 6, 41012-SevillaSpain email: pabloescribano@us.es
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Abstract

The alien nudibranch Polycera hedgpethi Er. Marcus, 1964, has been found in the Gulf of Cádiz (El Portil, Huelva). The present record in the Gulf of Cadiz could be considered an opportunity to connect the isolated Eastern Atlantic records for this species with those from the Mediterranean, even taking into consideration the possible unreported presence of this species along the North African Mediterranean coast. The collected specimens exhibited reproductive behaviour, suggesting the possibility of future additional records for this locality.

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Molluscadistributionalien speciesPolyceraGulf of CádizStrait of Gibraltar

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Marine Biodiversity Records , Volume 8 , 2015 , e127
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2015 

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