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Abstract
A new species of the genus Flabellina is described from the Cape Verde Archipelago. This species is characterized by having smooth rhinophores and cerata not inserted on stalks. The ground colour is pinkish violet. The apical half or two-thirds of the rhinophores and oral tentacles are white. The garnet digestive gland is visible through the pinkish translucent ceratal surface. Opaque white spots are irregularly scattered on the ceratal surface, mainly on the upper half. This species is compared with all the eastern Atlantic violet Flabellina spp. and with Piseinotecus gaditanus.
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Acknowledgements
We warmly thank Joaquim Reis who helped us with the logistics on the field trip to Cape Verde in 2013; thanks also to Corrine Almeida and Evandro P. Lopes from the Universidade de Cape Verde and Livinio de Jesus Tavares from Exclusive Divers Cape Verde, who helped us diving and sampling around the Cape Verde Islands. The authors are also grateful to the Ministerio Ambiente Habitação e Ordenamento do Territorio for approving the collecting permits (27/2013) in Cape Verde, and Rafael Araujo (Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales de Madrid) for providing the catalogue numbers.
Funding
This work was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (includes the earlier Ministry of Sciences and Innovation) under research grant CGL2010–17187, to J. L. Cervera. This is CEI·MAR journal publication 57.
Editorial responsibility: Christiane Todt