Chlorodiella nigra

Chlorodiella nigra (Forskål, 1775) (Fig. 3C) Chlorodiella nigra Rathbun 1897: 157 [Nomenclature]; 1911: 225; 1923: 108; Grant and McCulloch 1906: 12; Balss 1924: 10; De Man 1929a: 1; 1929b: 4; McNeill and Ward 1930: 383; Montgomery 1931: 441; Ward 1932: 249; Gordon 1934: 50; Shen 1936: 67; Miyake 1936: 508; Sakai 1936: 166; 1939: 508, pl. 97, fig. 1; 1965: 150, pl. 75, fig. 2; 1976: 465, pl. 166, fig. 1; Chopra and Das 1937: 402, pl. 6, fig. 2; Ramadan 1936: 32; Monod 1938: 132; Barnard 1950: 213; 1955: 29, fig. 10; Holthuis 1953: 15; Guinot 1962a: 238; 1964a: 12; 1964b: 69; 1967b: 262 [List]; Forest and Guinot 1961: 95, figs. 87–89, 97a, b; Sankarankutty 1966a: 351; 1966b: 50; Michel 1964: 24; Serène 1968: 81 [List]; 1977: 51; 1984: 258–259, fig. 168, pl. XXXVI B (for complete synonymy); Serène et al. 1976: 18; Takeda and Nunomura 1976: 74; Takeda and Miyake 1976: 108; Peyrot-Clausade 1977a: 26; 1977b: 213; Chen and Lan 1978: 268, figs. 1, 7 (6–7), pl. 1, fig. 1; Ribes 1978: 126; Takeda 1978: 40; Kensley 1981: 44 [List]; Garth and Kim 1983: 687; Dai et al. 1986: 315, pl. 45(5), fig. 169(2) [Review]; Dai and Yang 1991: 339, pl. 45(5), fig. 169(2) [Review]; Davie 2002: 519 [List]; Ng et al. 2008: 197 [List]; Lasley et al. 2015: 171, fig. S4A; Ng et al. 2017: 88 (for complete collection records from Taiwan). Material examined: 1 ñ, NMNS 8772-17, 8.5 × 6.0, Linshanbi, Shihmen District, New Taipei City, 18 December 2011. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific; Hawaii Islands; French Polynesia (Serène 1984; Poupin 1996). Remarks: Chlorodiella nigra (Forskål, 1775) (Fig. 3C) is commonly found in reef habitats in Taiwan. Numerous reports have noted the presence of this species along the coasts of eastern and southern Taiwan (Ng et al. 2017). This study reports the occurrence of this species in northern Taiwan, where the annual surface seawater temperature in January is over 5°C lower than that of eastern and southern Taiwan (Central Weather Bureau 2023).