Tambja affinis

Tambja affinis
A live individual of Tambja affinis from Diani, Kenya
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: Nembrothinae
Genus: Tambja
Species: T. affinis
Binomial name
Tambja affinis
Eliot, 1904
Synonyms

Nembrotha affinis

Tambja affinis is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Polyceridae.[1][2]

Distribution

This species was originally described from a specimen found at Zanzibar, East Africa. [3] It has been reported from various sites in the Indian Ocean, as far east as Ningaloo Reef, western Australia[4]

Description

Tambja affinis has bright yellow stripes on a blue background.

References

  1. Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (Ed.); Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdes A. & Warén A. 2005. Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology, 47(1-2). ConchBooks: Hackenheim, Germany. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997. 397 pp. http://www.vliz.be/Vmdcdata/imis2/ref.php?refid=78278
  2. WoRMS: Tambja affinis accessed : 28 December 2012
  3. Eliot, C. (1904) On some Nudibranchs from East Africa and Zanzibar. Part IV. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 74: 380–406
  4. http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/tambaffi

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