Sea slug (Subclass Heterobranchia) biodiversity is an important element of marine coral reef communities. However, due to their small size and cryptic behavior, few studies have examined spatiotemporal variation. Taiwan in the middle East Asia Island Arcs, where it one hotspots sea diversity. Meanwhile, northeast coast this island lies within subtropical monsoon region, climate shifts from a wa...

Biodiversity is a broad concept that encompasses the diversity of nature, from genetic to habitat scale, and ensures proper functioning ecosystems. The Mediterranean Sea, one world’s most biodiverse marine basins, faces major threats, such as overexploitation resources, pollution climate change. Here we provide first multi-taxa inventory organisms coastal terrestrial flora recorded in southeast...

The worldwide diffused bubble snails, Haminoeidae, although characterized by an extreme morphological homogeneity, display the most diverse radiation inside order Cephalaspidea. This hidden diversity within family Haminoeidae was recently unraveled molecular studies, which helped to understand evolutionary history of this group clarifying some aspects its systematics. In fact, type genus Hamino...

Although several studies are devoted to determining the diversity of Antarctic heterobranch sea slugs, new species are still being discovered. Among nudibranchs, Doto antarctica Eliot, 1907 is the single species of this genus described from Antarctica hitherto, the type locality being the Ross Sea. Doto antarctica was described mainly using external features. During our Antarctic research on ma...

Abstract Cryptic species in coral reefs, such as sea slugs, represent an important portion of their biodiversity, which is usually underestimated. Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS) have been implemented to estimate cryptic diversity reefs. Therefore, this research aimed contribute the southern Gulf Mexico (GM) and Caribbean Sea (CAR) reefs’ slugs’ distribution using ARMS a collection...