Attack on crypsis: Molecular and morphological study of Dendrodoris Ehrenberg 1831 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Nudibranchia) from the Mediterranean Sea and Northern Atlantic Ocean reinstates Dendrodoris temarana Pruvot-Fol, 1953 Author Galià-Camps, Carles Departament de Genètica, Microbiologia i Estadística, Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio), Universitat de Barcelona, Avinguda Diagonal 643 CP 08028, Barcelona, Spain Author Cervera, Juan Lucas Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias del Mar y Ambientales, Campus de Excelencia Internacional del Mar (CEIMAR), Universidad de Cádiz, Av. República Saharaui, s / n, P. O. Box 40, 11510 Puerto Real (Cádiz), Spain. & Instituto Universitario de Investigación Marina (INMAR), Campus de Excelencia Internacional del Mar (CEIMAR), Universidad de Cádiz, Av. República Saharaui, s / n, P. O. Box 40, 11510 Puerto Real (Cádiz), Spain. Author Valdés, Ángel 0000-0002-2347-4896 Department of Biological Sciences, California State Polytechnic University Pomona, 3801 West Temple Avenue, Pomona, California 91768, USA aavaldes @ cpp. edu; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 2347 - 4896 aavaldes@cpp.edu Author Ballesteros, Manuel 0000-0001-9055-1241 mballesteros @ ub. edu; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9055 - 1241 mballesteros@ub.edu text Zootaxa 2022 2022-05-05 5133 3 383 406 journal article 55688 10.11646/zootaxa.5133.3.4 1687750f-77a8-48e2-8c10-95500a2de28b 1175-5326 6523978 547DC9FA-B078-49D2-85E3-8D579783AB5B

TABLE 3. Comparison among the Atlantic and Mediterranean species of the genus Dendrodoris using main morphological characters based on Valdés et al., 1996 and current study observations.

Species	Dendrodoris	Dendrodoris	Dendrodoris	Dendrodoris lim-	Dendrodoris	Dendrodoris
	grandiflora	herytra	krebsii	bata	senegalensis	temarana
Chromatic	Pale grey	Bright reddish	Bright. Vari-	Pale. Variable from	Bright. Vari-	Bright. Variable
pattern	background,	background	able ranging	yellow to black.	able ranging	ranging from
	usually with	without	from white to	Presence of well-	from white to	yellow to black.
	black spots on	patches on	black. Diffused	defined patches	black. Defined	Presence of dif-
	notum.	notum	spots on notum	on notum. Yellow	large spots on	fused spots on
				margin	notum	notum.
Foot color	Same as dor-	--	--	Blackish. Several	--	Same as
	sum. Without			black patches		body. Without
	or with few					patches.
	patches
Branchial	Large	Small	Small	Large	Large	Large
leaves
Oesophagus	Three folds	Five folds	Four folds	Five folds	Three folds	Two folds
Penial hooks	Small with	Small with	Small with	Large with narrow	Small with	Small with
	elongated bases	some elon-	elongated	bases	some elongated	elongated bases
		gated bases	bases		bases
Vas deferens	Straight	Four folds	One fold	Curved	Two folds	Straight
Ampulla	One fold	One fold	One fold	Four folds	Two folds	Three folds
Female	Small	Very small	Large	Massive	Large	Small
gland
Egg mass	Yellowish	--	Yellowish	Orange	Yellowish	Whitish
color
Eggs size	100 μm	--	66 μm	333–523 μm	--	80 μm
Egg capsule	190 μm	--	85 μm	371–567 μm	110 μm	140 μm
size