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Okenia cupella

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Okenia cupella
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Superfamily: Onchidoridoidea
Family: Goniodorididae
Genus: Okenia
Species:
O. cupella
Binomial name
Okenia cupella
(Vogel & Schultz, 1970)[1]
Synonyms

Cargoa cupella (Vogel & Schultz, 1970) Basionym

Okenia cupella is a species of sea slug, specifically a dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Goniodorididae.[2]

Distribution

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This species was described from Chesapeake Bay, United States.

References

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  1. ^ Vogel, R. M., & Leonard P. Schultz. 1970. Cargoa cupella, new genus and new species of nudibranch from Chesapeake Bay and the generic status of Okenia Menke, Idalia Leuckart and Idalla Ørsted. Veliger 12(4):388-393.
  2. ^ Gofas, S. (2015). Okenia cupella (Vogel & Schultz, 1970). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-10-20