Author: (Baba, 1959)

Order: Cephalaspidea  Family: Aglajidae

Maximum Size: 20 mm

Sightings: Sunshine Coast; Milne Bay, PNG

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This species highly variable in pattern and colour presentation.
Previously on this website as Mariaglaja sandrana (Rudman, 1973).
Change effected 07/10/2024.

Mariaglaja tsurugensis (Baba, 1959) has priority over Mariaglaja sandrana (Rudman, 1973) having been described earlier and in accordance with the Articles of the ICZN. The molecular work on the Aglajidae by Zamora-Silva & Malaquias, 2018 showed them to be the same species.

References:
– Baba, K. & Abe, T. (1959). The genus Chelidonura and a new species, C. tsurugensis, from Japan. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory. 7(2): 279-280.

– Rudman, W. B. (1973) On some species of Chelidonura (Opisthobranchia: Aglajidae) from Zanzibar and Fiji. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 52: 201-215.

– Gosliner T. M. (1988) The Philinacea (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia) of Aldabra Atoll, with descriptions of five new species and a new genus. Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington 8: 79-100.

– Wells, F. E. & Bryce, C. W. (1993). Sea Slugs of Western Australia. Western Australian Museum.

– Rudman, W. B., (October, 1998) Chelidonura sandrana Rudman, 1973. [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet/chelsand and associated messages.

– Rudman, W. B., (October, 1998) Chelidonura tsurugensis Baba & Abe, 1959. [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet/cheltsur and associated message.

– Turner, L. M. & Wilson, N. G. (2012). The Chelidonura tsurugensis-sandrana (Gastropoda: Cephalaspidea) species complex: Do reproductive decisions maintain colour polymorphism? Journal of Molluscan Studies 78(2): 166-172.

– Yonow N. (2012) Opisthobranchs from the western Indian Ocean, with descriptions of two new species and ten new records (Mollusca, Gastropoda). ZooKeys 197: 1–129.

– Gosliner, T. M. (2015). Three New Species of Aglajid Cephalaspidean Mollusks from the Tropical Indo-Pacific of the Verde Island Passage. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences: Series 4, Vol. 62 No. 6, pp.191-205.

– Zamora-Silva, A. & Malaquias, M. A. E. (2018). Molecular phylogeny of the Aglajidae head-shield sea slugs (Heterobranchia: Cephalaspidea): new evolutionary lineages revealed and proposal of a new classification. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 183(1): 1-51.

– Gosliner, T. M., Valde ́s, A ́. & Behrens, D. W. (2018). Nudibranch & Sea Slug Identification – Indo-Pacific, 2nd Edition. New World Publications, Jacksonville, Florida, USA.

– MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Mariaglaja Zamora-Silva & Malaquias, 2017. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.phpp=taxdetails&id=1055127 on 2024-09-28