Dendronotus noahi

Dendronotus noahi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Dexiarchia
clade Cladobranchia
clade Dendronotida

Superfamily: Tritonioidea
Family: Dendronotidae
Genus: Dendronotus
Species: D. noahi
Binomial name
Dendronotus noahi
Pola & Stout, 2008[1]

Dendronotus noahi is a species of sea slug, a dendronotid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dendronotidae.[2]

Distribution

This species was described from the outer barrier reef off New Year’s Bay, Bagabag Island, Papua New Guinea.[1]

Habitat

Dendronotus noahi was found under coral on an exposed reef slope at 20 m depth.[1][3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Pola M. & Stout C.C. (2008). Description of the first two tropical Indo-Pacific species of Dendronotus (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia) with new data of the poorly known species Dendronotus gracilis Baba, 1949. Zootaxa, 1960: 45-66
  2. Bouchet, P. (2015). Dendronotus noahi. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-02-08.
  3. Gosliner, T.M., Valdés, A. & Behrens, D.W. (2015). Nudibranch and Sea Slug Identification - Indo-Pacific. New World Publications, Jacksonville, Florida, 408 pp., page 311.
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