Corambe carambola (Er. Marcus, 1955)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Corambella carambola Er. Marcus, 1955
Conservation Status
Last record: 1970 or before (Marcus, 1970)
Rediscovered on: 2 August 2011 (Cunha et al., 2014)
Distribution & Habitat
São Paulo, Brazil
Type locality: "Ubatuba and São Sebastião Island, São Paulo, Brazil" (Cunha et al., 2014)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Marcus, Ernst. (1955). Opisthobranchia from Brazil. Boletim da Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras da Universidade de São Paulo (Zoologia). 20: 89-261. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2526-3382.bffclzoologia.1955.120213
Other references:
Abbott, R. T. (1974). American seashells. 2nd edition. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company. 663 pp + 24 pls.
Cunha, Carlo M., Saad, Luiza, O. and Lima, Patrícia O. V. (2014). Rediscovery of Brazilian corambids (Gastropoda: Onchidorididae). Marine Biodiversity Records 7: e14 (5 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755267214000062
Marcus, E. (1970). On some opisthobranchs from Cananéia, Brazil. Boletim Zoologia e Biologia Marinha, Universidade de São Paulo 27: 207-228.
Martynov, A. and Schrödl, M. (2011). Phylogeny and evolution of corambid nudibranchs (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163: 585-604.
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Corambe carambola (Er. Marcus, 1955). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=582156 on 2025-06-05
Rios, E. C. (1985). Seashells of Brazil. Rio Grande: Fundação Universidade do Rio Grande, Museu Oceanografico. 329 pp.
Rios, E. C. (1994). Seashells of Brazil. 2nd edition. Rio Grande: Fundação Universidade do Rio Grande, Museu Oceanografico. 368 pp.
Rios, E.C. (2009). Compendium of Brazilian eea shells. Rio Grande: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Museu Oceanográfico.
Swennen, C. and Dekker, R. (1995). Corambe batava Kerbert, 1886 (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia), an immigrant in The Netherlands, with a revision of the family Corambidae. Journal of Molluscan Studies 61: 97-107.