Doriprismatica kyanomarginata
| Doriprismatica kyanomarginata | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Family: | Chromodorididae |
| Genus: | Doriprismatica |
| Species: | D. kyanomarginata
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| Doriprismatica kyanomarginata Yonow, 2018[1]
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Doriprismatica kyanomarginata is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chromodorididae.[2]
Distribution
[edit]This species was described from Egypt with additional material from The Creek, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.[1]
Description
[edit]Doriprismatica kyanomarginata is predominantly mottled light beige in colour. The mantle edge is extensively folded as in other Doriprismatica and Glossodoris species with coloured lines at the edge. There is a transition from beige to yellow, followed by a line which is pale blue and then an outer black line in this species.[1][3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Yonow N. (2018). Red Sea Opisthobranchia 5: new species and new records of chromodorids from the Red Sea (Heterobranchia, Nudibranchia, Chromodorididae). ZooKeys. 770: 9-42, page 13, pl. 1 fig. 4
- ^ MolluscaBase (2018). Doriprismatica kyanomarginata Yonow, 2018. Accessed on 2019-01-08.
- ^ Yonow N., 2008. Red Sea Sea Slugs. Pensoft Publications, Sofia/Moscow, 304 pp., page 189, lower left and mid lower right photographs, as Glossodoris cincta.