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Description
Martadoris (Willan & Y.-W. Chang, 2017) is an accepted genus of small dorid nudibranchs in the family Polyceridae (subfamily Nembrothinae). It contains five species from the western Pacific, the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, including Martadoris mediterranea, described in 2015 as Tambja mediterranea and moved to the genus in 2017. It is found at 8-60 m on sandy bottoms with red algae, among Posidonia leaves and on gorgonians. Its diet is not documented.
Identification
In M. mediterranea: an elongate, slug-like (limaciform) body ending in a pointed tail, up to about 10 mm, orange-red with rounded whitish or yellowish tubercles on the back. The rhinophores are dark red with a pale tip, have about 15-20 lamellae and retract into raised sheaths; the gill has three non-retractile tripinnate leaves.
Species in this genus (1)
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