This species has been observed on Reunion Island

Order : Sacoglossa Super-family : Oxynooidea Family : Juliidae Distribution : Indo West Pacific Maximal size : 10 mm Abundance : Species characteristics : Body green, shell green with a series of opaque white bands radiating along the margin Associated with Caulerpa racemosa
	Showing species characteristics...	Photo Christophe Cadet Reunion, Etang salé on the rocky coast, less 1 m, December 2010, size : 5 mm

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Remarks :

There are two very similar species that have shell green with a series of opaque white bands radiating along the margin Berthelinia schlumbergeri and B. limax. These two species have a Indo Pacific distribution... So very difficult to conclude...
    Synonymous : (according Worms)
        For Berthelinia schlumbergeri :
            - No other name
        For Berthelinia limax :
            - Tamanovalva limax Kawaguti & Baba, 1959

Bibliographic data :

These little sacoglossan opisthobranchs were originally described as bivalves (pelecypods), based on fossil solitary shells, but in the late 1950's Kawaguti & Baba (1959) described the living animals. Some workers have divided the group into multiple genera, but many of the species apparently differ in only minor variations of shell morphology. Gosliner (1987) considers South African specimens of Berthelinia to be B. schlumbergeri

References :

Bill Rudman Seaslug site : Sea Slug Forum : Tamanovalva limax
   Okinawa Slug Site Berthelinia schlumbergeri
   Med Slug Berthelinia limax
   Nature publication Berthelinia limax

Publications :

Baba, K (1961) On the identification and the affinity of Tamanovalva limax , a bivalved sacoglossan mollusc in Japan. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, 9 : 37-62, Pls 1-4.
    Gosliner, T. 1987. Nudibranchs of Southern Africa. A Guide to Opisthobranch Molluscs of Southern Africa. Sea Challengers, Monterey, California
    Jensen, K.R. (2007). Biogeography of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia). Bonner Zoologische Beiträge. 55: 255–281.
    Kawaguti, S. & Baba, K. (1959) A preliminary note on a two-valved sacoglossan gastropod, Tamanovalva limax , n. gen., n. sp., from Tamano, Japan. Biol. J. Okayama Univ. 5(3-4) : 177-184.
    Prabhakara K Record of the Bivalve Gastropod Berthelinia limax (Kawaguti and Baba 1959) from the Indian Ocean Nature 208, 404 - 405 (23 October 1965)

Other photos of Berthelinia schlumbergeri or limax :

Christophe Cadet Reunion, Etang salé on the rocky coast, less 1 m, 21 December 2010, size : 5 mm

Christophe Cadet Reunion, Sainte Rose on the rocky coast, less 1 m, 17 November 2016, size : 2-3 mm   With a baby (a)

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