Cryptic speciation yields remarkable mimics: a new genus of sea slugs that masquerade as toxic algae (Caulerpa spp.)

• Main Authors: Krug, Patrick J., Wong, Nur Leena Wai Sin, Medina, Melanie R., Gosliner, Terrence M., Valdes, Angel A.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing 2018
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/72148/1/Cryptic%20speciation%20yields%20remarkable%20mimics.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/72148/; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/zsc.12310

“Cryptic” can refer to species that match their background through camouflage or disruptive colouration, or in taxonomy to externally similar but unrecognized congeners. In adaptive resemblance, organisms resemble parts of a larger host animal or plant on which the mimic is highly cryptic. Mimetic l...