Dermatobranchus albineus
Appearance
Dermatobranchus albineus | |
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Llandudno, South Africa | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Nudibranchia |
Suborder: | Cladobranchia |
Family: | Arminidae |
Genus: | Dermatobranchus |
Species: | D. albineus
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Binomial name | |
Dermatobranchus albineus |
Dermatobranchus albineus is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Arminidae.[2]
Distribution
[edit]This species was described from Hottentots Huisie (Oudekraal), Atlantic coast, Cape Peninsula, Cape Province, South Africa 33°59.2407′S 18°20.81224′E / 33.9873450°S 18.34687067°E at 7 m depth. Multiple specimens from this locality and east as far as Algoa Bay, Port Elizabeth were included in the original description.
References
[edit]- ^ Gosliner T.M. & Fahey S.J. (2011) Previously undocumented diversity and abundance of cryptic species: a phylogenetic analysis of Indo-Pacific Arminidae Rafinesque, 1814 (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) with descriptions of 20 new species of Dermatobranchus. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 161: 245–356.
- ^ Bouchet, P. (2015). Dermatobranchus albineus. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-09-30