Order: Nudibranchia Cuvier, 1817 - Suborder: Cladobranchia

Family: Arminidae Iredale & O'Donoghue, 1841

Dermatobranchus rubidus (Gould, 1852)

Porto Pirrone (Taranto, Italy) Ionious Sea

Specie molto rara anche a causa delle abitudini fossorie. L'eccezionale rinvenimento dell'amico Gianni Colucci autore anche della foto è stato documentato in bibliografia

Very rare species also due to its fossorial habits. The exceptional discovery of his friend Gianni Colucci, who was also the author of the photo, has been documented in the bibliography

Bibliography

G. COLUCCI, R. STRAFELLA, E. TRAINITO and M. DONEDDU 2015 First record of the genus Dermatobranchus van Hasselt, 1824, in the Mediterranean Sea (Nudibranchia: Arminidae) Medit. Mar. Sci., 16/2, 2015, 331-333.

Furfaro G., Vitale F., Licchelli C. e Mariottini P. 2020 Two Seas for One Great Diversity: Checklist of the Marine Heterobranchia (Mollusca; Gastropoda) from the Salento Peninsula (South-East Italy) Diversity 2020, 12, 171; doi:10.3390/d12050171