Glossodoris cincta

Glossodoris cincta is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chromodorididae. This name has been extensively used for a group of similarly coloured species, some of which are unnamed.^[2]

Glossodoris cincta
With the cleaning shrimp Zenopontonia rex
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Nudibranchia
Family:	Chromodorididae
Genus:	Glossodoris
Species:	G. cincta
Binomial name
Glossodoris cincta (Bergh, 1888)[1]

Distribution

This species was described from Ile Marianne, Fouquets Reef, Mauritius. This species has been reported in error widely in the Indo-Pacific region but these reports should be referred to Glossodoris acosti or undescribed Glossodoris species.^[2] The only reliable recent records are from Réunion.^[3]

Description

Glossodoris cincta has a mantle which is tawny brown with blue-white dots and a dark blue margin to the mantle which is separated from the brown by a thin grey line. The rhinophores are dark brown with blue-white dots. The living holotype was 60 mm (2.4 in) in length.^[1][2][3][4]

Gallery

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  Frontal closeup of Glossodoris cincta
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  Glossodoris cincta at Lembeh Bali, 2011
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  Glossodoris cincta
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  Glossodoris cincta at Wakatobi National Park Indonesia, 2015
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  Glossodoris cincta