Chlorodiella cytherea (Dana, 1852)

Chlorodiella cytherea (Dana, 1852) View in CoL ( Fig. 3A, B, D, E View Fig )

Chlorodiella cytherea Holthuis 1953: 14 View in CoL ; Forest and Guinot 1961: 95, figs. 90–92, 98a, b; Guinot 1962a: 238; 1964b: 70; 1967b: 262 (part) [List]; Michel 1964: 24; Serène 1968: 81 [List]; 1984: 259, fig. 169, pl. XXXVI C (for complete synonymy); Garth 1973: 320; Serène et al. 1976: 18; Takeda and Nunomura 1976: 74; Sakai 1976: 466, fig. 2, pl. 166; Takeda and Miyake 1976: 108; Takeda and Kurata 1977: 94; Peyrot-Clausade 1977a: 26; 1977b: 213; 1989: 112; Chen and Lan 1978: 270; figs. 5, 7 (1–3), pl. 2, fig. 5; Ribes 1978: 126; Thomassin 1978: 64; Dai et al. 1986: 316, pl. 45(6), fig. 169(4) [Review]; Titgen 1987: 107, fig. 1a– d; Holthuis 1953: 14; Peyrot-Clausade 1989: 112; Dai and Yang 1991: 340, pl. 45(6), fig. 169(4); DeFelice et al. 1998: 16; Ng et al. 2008: 197 [List]; Castro 2011: 87 View Cited Treatment [List]; Lasley et al. 2015: 171; Ng et al. 2017: 88 (for complete collection records from Taiwan).

Material examined: 1 ñ, NMNS 8772-12, 5.7 × 3.7, Shanfu, Liuqiu Township, Pingtung County, 24 October 2008; 1 ò 3 ñ, NMNS 8772-13, 8.4–11.0 × 5.3–6.6, Wanlitong, Pingtung County, 13 May 2009; 1 ñ, NMNS 8772-14, 7.2 × 4.4, Wanlitong, Pingtung County, 13 November 2009; 2 ñ, NMNS 8772-15–16, 3.5–5.2 × 2.4–3.2, Shadao, Hengchun Township, Pingtung County, coll. H.- T. Hung, 16–17 October, 2020.

Distribution: Indo-West Pacific; Red Sea; Hawaii Islands; French Polynesia ( Serène 1984; Poupin 1996).

Remark: The morphology of the present specimens ( Fig. 3A, B, D, E View Fig ) matches the description of Chlorodiella cytherea (Dana, 1852) ( Dana 1852b: 213– 214) . Ng et al. (2017: 87) cited Sasaki (1976) as the first report of Chl. cytherea from Taiwan. However, Serène (1984) noted Chl. laevissima , as reported by Miyake (1938), is a junior synonym of Chl. cytherea . Thus, Miyake (1938), rather than Sasaki (1976), should be considered the first report of this species from Taiwan.