Polycera melanosticta
Appearance
Polycera melanosticta | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Nudibranchia |
Superfamily: | Polyceroidea |
Family: | Polyceridae |
Genus: | Polycera |
Species: | P. melanosticta
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Binomial name | |
Polycera melanosticta M. C. Miller, 1996[1]
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Polycera melanosticta is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Polyceridae.[2]
Distribution
[edit]This species was described from ten specimens collected from underneath a paint raft at Devonport Naval Base, Waitemata Harbour, Auckland, New Zealand.
Ecology
[edit]Polycera melanosticta feeds on Bugula neritina and Bugula stolonifera.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Miller, M. C. (1996). A new species of the dorid nudibranch genus Polycera Cuvier, 1816 (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia) from New Zealand.[dead link] Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 62: 443-450.
- ^ MolluscaBase (2018). Polycera melanosticta M. C. Miller, 1996. Accessed on 2019-10-12.