Vayssierea cinnabarea

Vayssierea cinnabarea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

informal group Opisthobranchia
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia

Family: Okadaiidae
Genus: Vayssierea
Baba, 1930
Species: V. cinnabarea
Binomial name
Vayssierea cinnabarea
(Ralph, 1944)[1]
Synonyms
  • Okadaia cinnabarea (Ralph, 1944)
  • Pellibranchus cinnabareus Ralph, 1944

Vayssierea cinnabarea is a species of minute sea slug, a dorid nudibranch in the gastropod family Okadadiidae.[2]

This species feeds on Spirorbis tube worms.

Distribution

This species occurs in New Zealand.

References

  1. Ralph P. M. (June) 1944. Pellibranchus cinnabareus, a New Genus and Species of Non-Pelagic Nudibranch Mollusc of the Family Phyllirhoidae. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Volume 74, 1944-45, 24-31.
  2. Rosenberg, G. (2012). Vayssierea cinnabarea. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=599228 on 2012-06-03

Further reading

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