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Discrimination of two Dendronotus species by allozyme electrophoresis and the reinstatement of Dendronotus lacteus (Thompson, 1840) (Nudibranchia, Dendronotoidea)
Author(s) -
THOLLESSON MIKAEL
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
zoologica scripta
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.204
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1463-6409
pISSN - 0300-3256
DOI - 10.1111/j.1463-6409.1998.tb00436.x
Subject(s) - biology , fjord , zoology , ecology , oceanography , geology
Whitish and brownish specimens of what has commonly been identified as Dendronotus frondosus (Ascanius, 1774) from the fjord Gullmaren on the Swedish west coast are shown by allozyme electrophoresis to be genetically isolated from each other, and are thus considered to represent two separate species. The brownish specimens are regarded nominally as representing D. frondosus. Dendronotus lacteus (Thompson, 1840) is reinstated for the whitish specimens, and the species is redescribed.