Pseudunela marteli
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| Pseudunela marteli | |
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| A live Pseudunela marteli. dg - digestive gland, oo - oocyte. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Family: | Pseudunelidae |
| Genus: | Pseudunela |
| Species: | P. marteli |
| Binomial name | |
| Pseudunela marteli Neusser, Jörger & Schrödl, 2011[1] | |
Pseudunela marteli is a species of sea slug, an acochlidian, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pseudunelidae.
The specific name marteli is in honour of author's "big-hearted friend and colleague" biologist Martin “Martl” Heß from LMU Munich, because the species has a large heart-bulb.[1]
Pseudunela marteli is known from Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, and Oyster Island, Vanuatu.[1] The type locality is beach of “Art Gallery”, Honiara, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands.[1]
Description
External morphology and anatomy of Pseudunela marteli is the same as in Pseudunela viatoris with the following exceptions:[1] Colour of digestive gland is greenish or orange-brownish.[1] Eyes (30–35 μm) are pigmented and well visible externally.[1] Foot length is up to half of the visceral hump.[1] Subepidermal spicules are more abundant in cephalic tentacles, foot and visceral hump.[1]
digestive system: the radula formula is 57–59×1.1.?; rhachidian tooth with 3–4 denticles per side.[1]
reproductive system: the hollow curved penial stylet measures 130 μm in length, the stylet of basal finger is 30 μm long.[1] The ampulla is sac-like; allosperm receptacles are absent in the examined specimen.[1] The albumen and mucous glands are tubular; the membrane gland is sac-like.[1]
lt – labial tentacle,
rh – rhinophore,
ey – eye,
hb – heart bulb,
f – foot,
vh – visceral hump.
