Chromodoris boucheti
Rudman, 1982

Order: NUDIBRANCHIA
Suborder: DORIDINA
Superfamily: EUDORIDOIDEA
Family: Chromodorididae

DISTRIBUTION

Western Indian Ocean.

PHOTO

Holotype. Mayotte, Comoro Is, Northern entrance to Longogoni Pass, 15m, March 1977. (18mm long preserved) PHOTO: P. Bouchet.

Very similar in colour to Chromodoris lochi and Chromodoris willani in having a bluish white body with longitudinal black lines, and pale gills and rhinophores. The three species can be distinguished externally as follows:
C. lochi: Gills and rhinophore clubs uniformly straw coloured or yellowish.
C. willani: Gills and rhinophore clubs translucent clear or bluish, with white specks
C. boucheti: Rhinophore clubs uniformly yellow. Gills - lower half white, upper half yellow, a black line runs from the base, up both the inside and outside edge of each gill, for a varying distance.

Originally described from the Comoro Islands and reported from the Maldives (Debelius, 1996). It is reported below from South Africa.

Reference:
• Rudman, W.B. (1982) The Chromodorididae (Opisthobranchia: Mollusca) of the Indo-West Pacific: Chromodoris quadricolor, C. lineolata and Hypselodoris nigrolineata
colour groups. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 76: 183-241.

Authorship details
Rudman, W.B., 1999 (November 18) Chromodoris boucheti Rudman, 1982. [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet/chrobouc

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