Elysia maoria
Elysia maoria | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
Superfamily: | Plakobranchoidea |
Family: | Plakobranchidae |
Genus: | Elysia |
Species: | E. maoria |
Binomial name | |
Elysia maoria Powell, 1937 | |
Elysia maoria is a small to medium-sized species of sea slug, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Plakobranchidae. This sea slug resembles a nudibranch, but it is not closely related to that order of gastropods, instead it is a sacoglossan. It occurs in New Zealand and Australia.[1]
References
- ↑ Powell A. W. B. (1979) New Zealand Mollusca. William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand ISBN 0-00-216906-1
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