Polybranchia orientalis
Appearance
Polybranchia orientalis | |
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A live individual of Polybranchia orientalis about 2 cm in length, head end towards the top of the image | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Family: | Hermaeidae |
Genus: | Polybranchia |
Species: | P. orientalis
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Binomial name | |
Polybranchia orientalis | |
Synonyms[2] | |
Proctonotus orientalis Kelaart, 1858 |
Polybranchia orientalis is a species of sacoglossan sea slug, a shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Caliphyllidae.[2]
Distribution
[edit]This species occurs in the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.
References
[edit]- ^ Kelaart E. F. (1858). "Description of new and little known species of Ceylon nudibranchiate molluscs and zoophytes". Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Columbo, 3(1): 84-139.
- ^ a b Bouchet, P. (2011). Polybranchia orientalis (Kelaart, 1858). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=494520 on 2011-04-12
- Jensen K.R. (2007) Biogeography of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia). Bonner Zoologische Beiträge 55:255–281
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