Polybranchia orientalis
| Polybranchia orientalis | |
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| A live individual of Polybranchia orientalis about 2 cm in length, head end towards the top of the image | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia informal group Opisthobranchia clade Sacoglossa clade Plakobranchacea |
| Superfamily: | Limapontioidea |
| Family: | Caliphyllidae |
| Genus: | Polybranchia |
| Species: | P. orientalis |
| Binomial name | |
| Polybranchia orientalis (Kelaart, 1858)[1] | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Proctonotus orientalis Kelaart, 1858 | |
Polybranchia orientalis is a species of sacoglossan sea slug, a shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Caliphyllidae. [2]
Distribution
This species occurs in the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.
References
- ↑ Kelaart E. F. (1858). "Description of new and little known species of Ceylon nudibranchiate molluscs and zoophytes". Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Columbo, 3(1): 84-139.
- 1 2 Bouchet, P. (2011). Polybranchia orientalis (Kelaart, 1858). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=494520 on 2011-04-12
- Jensen K.R. (2007) Biogeography of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia). Bonner Zoologische Beiträge 55:255–281
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