Image of Splanchnotrophus imagawai Uyeno & Nagasawa 2012

Description:

Figure 1.Live coloration of the host nudibranchs and the splanchnotrophids. A Hypselodoris festiva infected by an ovigerous specimenof Certosomicola japonica sp. n. B an egg sac of Ceratosomicola japonica sp. n. and the gill circle of Hypselodoris festiva with the mantle malformed into an elongate tube C Thecacera pennigera infected by an ovigerous specimen of Splanchnotrophus helianthus sp. n. D Trapania pennigera with the mantle removed to show a female specimen of Splanchnotrophus helianthus on the visceral sac E Trapania miltabrancha infected by an ovigerous specimen of Splanchnotrophus imagawai sp. n (photo by K. Imagawa) F gill circle of Trapania miltabrancha with egg sacs of Splanchnotrophus imagawai sp. n. (photo by K. Imagawa) G Roboastra luteolineata infected by an ovigerous specimen of Majimun shirakawai gen. et sp. n. (photo by N. Shirakawa) H female Majimun shirakawai gen. et sp. n. with dwarf male attached to the posterior part of the body. Scale bars = 5 mm in A; 1 mm in B, D, H.