Kauaʻi record · KCA-MOL-00050
Frida’s Costasiella
Costasiella fridae
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About Frida’s Costasiella
Sea Slugs of Hawaii explicitly includes Kauai in the distribution of Costasiella fridae; iNaturalist observation 244845094 is tagged Kauai County but mapped inland and therefore is not used as locality proof by itself.
WoRMS AphiaID 1635088 lists Costasiella fridae as accepted; expert account notes it was formerly listed as Costasiella sp. #2 and may correspond to Costasiella sp. 1 in Gosliner et al. 2018.
Expert account reports numerous animals on Avrainvillea erecta at 5-30 m, within nearshore diving scope.
Expert species account validates Kauaʻi and shallow habitat; conservative historical class because the sole modern coordinate is internally inconsistent with a marine observation.
Names and classification
- Scientific name
- Costasiella fridae
- Common names
- Frida’s Costasiella
- Other names
- Costasiella fridae
- Record type
- species
Kauaʻi occurrence and status
- Kauaʻi occurrence
- Expert island occurrence verified; exact date/current Kauaʻi specimen metadata were not exposed on the account.
- Origin
- Origin not inferred from occurrence census
- Conservation status
- Not assessed
- Evidence limits
- Occurrence category and evidence are source-bounded. Abundance, trend, and living status are not inferred beyond the reviewed evidence.
Habitat and ecology
- Habitats
- Marine reef and nearshore
Process and seasonal context
- Seasonal description
- Costasiella fridae is included in the verified Kauaʻi mollusk census. Expert species account validates Kauaʻi and shallow habitat; conservative historical class because the sole modern coordinate is internally inconsistent with a marine observation.