Acanthodoris mollicella

Acanthodoris mollicella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Euctenidiacea
clade Doridacea

Superfamily: Onchidoridoidea
Family: Onchidorididae
Genus: Acanthodoris
Species: A. mollicella
Binomial name
Acanthodoris mollicella
Abraham, 1877[1]

Acanthodoris mollicella is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Onchidorididae.[2]

Distribution

This species was described from Lord Auckland's Islands, New Zealand. It has not been reported since the original description.[3]

References

  1. Abraham, P. S. (1877) Revision of the anthobranchiate nudibranchiate Mollusca, with descriptions or notices of forty-one hitherto undescribed species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London pp. 196-269, pls. 27-30, page 228, page 262, plate XXX figs 1-4.
  2. Rosenberg, G. (2015). Acanthodoris mollicella Abraham, 1877. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-01-11.
  3. Fahey S. & Valdés A. (2005). A review of Acanthodoris Gray, 1850 with a Phylogenetic Analysis of Onchidorididae Alder and Hancock, 1845 (Mollusca, Nudibranchia). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 56: 213-272.
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