Acanthodoris vatheleti

Acanthodoris vatheleti
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. vatheleti
Binomial name
Acanthodoris vatheleti
Mabille & Rochebrune, 1889[1]

Acanthodoris vatheleti 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 Orange Bay, Punta Arenas, Cape Horn. It was inadequately described and has not been reported since the original description. It may be synonymous with Acanthodoris falklandica.[3]

References

  1. Rochebrune A.-T. de & Mabille J. (1889). Mollusques. in: Mission Scientifique du Cap Horn 1882-1883. Tome 6 (Zoologie 2, part 8). Paris, Gauthiers-Villars. H.1-H.129, pls. 1-8, page(s): 11
  2. Bouchet, P.; Rosenberg, G. (2015). Acanthodoris vatheleti Mabille & Rochebrune, 1889. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-01-13.
  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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