Caloria indica
| Caloria indica | |
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| Caloria indica | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Nudipleura clade Nudibranchia |
| Superfamily: | Aeolidioidea |
| Family: | Facelinidae |
| Genus: | Caloria |
| Species: | C. indica |
| Binomial name | |
| Caloria indica (Bergh, 1896)[1] | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Caloria indica is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Facelinidae.[2][3]
Description
The size of the body varies between 25 mm and 50 mm.
Distribution
This marine species occurs in the Indo-West Pacific; also as an invasive species in the Israeli part of the Mediterranean Sea.
References
- 1 2 Bergh L. S. R. (1896). "Eolidiens d'Amboine. Voyage de MM. M. Bedot et C. Pictet dans l'Archipel Malais". Revue Suisse de Zoologie 4: 385-394, Plate 16.
- 1 2 Gofas, S. (2009). Caloria indica (Bergh, 1896). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2009) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=181240 on 2010-05-18
- ↑ "Caloria indica". CLEMAM. accessed 19 May 2010.
- Gat G., 1993: Flabellina rubrolineata (O'Donoghue) and Phidiana indica (Bergh) (Nudibranchia: Aeolidioidea), two new Lessepsian immigrants in the Eastern Mediterranean; Journal of Molluscan Studies 59(1): 120
- Zenetos A., Gofas S., Russo G. & Templado J., 2004: CIESM Atlas of exotic species in the Mediterranean. 3. Molluscs (F. Briand, ed.) CIESM Publishers, Monaco 376 p
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