Palio amakusana

Palio amakusana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Euctenidiacea
clade Doridacea

Superfamily: Polyceroidea
Family: Polyceridae
Subfamily: Polycerinae
Genus: Palio
Species: P. amakusana
Binomial name
Palio amakusana
(Baba, 1960) [1]

Palio amakusana is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Polyceridae.[2]

Distribution

This species was described from Japan.

Description

Palio amakusana is similar in shape to Palio dubia with a high-sided body and small rounded tubercles along the pallial margin. There are slightly smaller white tubercles scattered over the back and sides. It is translucent yellow-orange in colour. There is a prominent, white, extra-brachial appendage on either side of the gills.[3]

References

  1. Baba, K. (1960). The genera Polycera, Palio, Greilada and Thecacera from Japan (Nudibranchia - Polyceridae). Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory 8(1):75-78, pl. 6.
  2. Bouchet, P. (2015). Palio amakusana (Baba, 1960). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-12-13.
  3. DS Exiles, (2010) Palio amakusana [in] Sea Slugs of the Mediterranean Sea and elsewhere.
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