Dermatobranchus caesitius
Appearance
Dermatobranchus caesitius | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Nudibranchia |
Suborder: | Cladobranchia |
Family: | Arminidae |
Genus: | Dermatobranchus |
Species: | D. caesitius
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Binomial name | |
Dermatobranchus caesitius |
Dermatobranchus caesitius is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Arminidae.[2]
Distribution
[edit]This species was described from Umgazana on the Indian Ocean coast of South Africa, 31°41′42″S 29°25′26″E / 31.695°S 29.424°E.
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 caesitius. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-09-30