Scott & Jeanette Johnson, Kwajalein Unterwater
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Pelagella scottjohnsoni Paz-Sedano, Smirnoff, Gosliner & Pola, 2023
Six new species of Pelagella: Pelagella albopunctata ,Pelagella balanoyensis , Pelagella longicornis, Pelagella scottjohnsoni, Pelagella rubrobranchiata and Pelagella vitrea were newly described in 2023.
Pelagella scottjohnsoni is rarer than Pelagella joubini but has been found on Enewetak and Kwajalein atolls, mostly under rocks on lagoon reefs and sea stacks. A copy by Kwajalein is given in Gosliner et al. (2018) as Goniodoris sp. designated. 2.
The species name "scottjohnsoni" was given in honor of Scott Johnson, who made these Kwajalein snails available to science.
The holotype was found in a lagoon reef of Kwajalein Atoll in an area of Halimeda algae and was observed there on a colonial sea squirt. The small nudibranch was found on July 4, 2009 at a depth of 22 m and was a large specimen measuring 17 mm in length.
WoRMS classifies the small snail as predatory on sessile food. Since details are not available, we suspect that it feeds on sea squirts like other members of its genus.
Six new species of Pelagella: Pelagella albopunctata ,Pelagella balanoyensis , Pelagella longicornis, Pelagella scottjohnsoni, Pelagella rubrobranchiata and Pelagella vitrea were newly described in 2023.
Pelagella scottjohnsoni is rarer than Pelagella joubini but has been found on Enewetak and Kwajalein atolls, mostly under rocks on lagoon reefs and sea stacks. A copy by Kwajalein is given in Gosliner et al. (2018) as Goniodoris sp. designated. 2.
The species name "scottjohnsoni" was given in honor of Scott Johnson, who made these Kwajalein snails available to science.
The holotype was found in a lagoon reef of Kwajalein Atoll in an area of Halimeda algae and was observed there on a colonial sea squirt. The small nudibranch was found on July 4, 2009 at a depth of 22 m and was a large specimen measuring 17 mm in length.
WoRMS classifies the small snail as predatory on sessile food. Since details are not available, we suspect that it feeds on sea squirts like other members of its genus.
