Dermatobranchus caeruleomaculatus

Dermatobranchus caeruleomaculatus
The nudibranch Dermatobranchus caeruleomaculatus, Bima, Sumbawa, Indonesia.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Dexiarchia
clade Cladobranchia
clade Euarminida

Superfamily: Arminoidea
Family: Arminidae
Genus: Dermatobranchus
Species: D. caeruleomaculatus
Binomial name
Dermatobranchus caeruleomaculatus
Gosliner & Fahey, 2011 [1]

Dermatobranchus caeruleomaculatus is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Arminidae. [2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indo-Pacific region. It was described from Waterfall Bay, south side Tioman Island, east Malaysia. It is also known from Indonesia, the Philippines and Papua New Guinea.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Gosliner T.M. & Fahey S.J. (2011) Previously undocumented diversity and abundance of cryptic species: a phylogenetic analysis of Indo-Pacific Arminidae Rafinesque, 1814 (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) with descriptions of 20 new species of Dermatobranchus. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 161: 245–356.
  2. Bouchet, P. (2015). Dermatobranchus caeruleomaculatus. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-09-30
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