Taringa halgerda
| Taringa halgerda | |
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| Taringa halgerda from Puerto Galera in the Philippines | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Nudipleura clade Nudibranchia |
| Superfamily: | Doridoidea |
| Family: | Discodorididae |
| Genus: | Taringa |
| Species: | T. halgerda |
| Binomial name | |
| Taringa halgerda Gosliner & Behrens, 1998 [1] | |
Taringa halgerda is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusk in the family Discodorididae.
There is no real certainty that this species is placed in the correct genus.[1]
Distribution
This species is found in the tropical Western Pacific Ocean, especially around Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and the Philippines.[2]
Taringa halgerda
Description
Taringa halgerda is white with very distinct yellow tubercles covering the mantle. The gills of this nudibranch are white, faintly outlined in black, and the rhinophores are black. This species can reach a length of at least 40 mm.
This species can be confused with Taringa luteola but there are differences in the coloration, tubercles and in some aspects of the internal anatomy.
References
- 1 2 Gosliner, Terrence M. and Behrens, David W. 1998 (1998). "Two new Discodorid nudibranchs from the western Pacific with a redescription of Doris luteola Kelaart, 1858". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 50 (11): 279–293. Archived from the original on June 16, 2007.
- ↑ Taringa halgerda Gosliner & Behrens, 1998. Sea Slug Forum, accessed 8 December 2009.
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