Akiodoris lutescens

Akiodoris lutescens is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Onchidorididae.[2]

Akiodoris lutescens
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Doridina
Superfamily: Onchidoridoidea
Family: Akiodorididae
Genus: Akiodoris
Species:
A. lutescens
Binomial name
Akiodoris lutescens
(Bergh, 1879)[1]

Distribution

This species was described from a specimen collected by William Healey Dall in Nazan Bay at Atka Island, Aleutian Islands.[1] It has been redescribed from specimens collected in the Sea of Okhotsk and the Commander Islands, Russia.[3]

References

  1. Bergh, L. S. R. (1879). On the nudibranchiate gasteropod Mollusca of the North Pacific Ocean, with special reference to those of Alaska. Scientific Results of the Exploration of Alaska, part I, Article V. (1):127-188, pls. 1-8.
  2. Bouchet, P. (2015). Akiodoris lutescens Bergh, 1879. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-11-16.
  3. Millen, S. V. and Martynov, A. V. (2005). Redescriptions of the nudibranch genera Akiodoris Bergh, 1879 and Armodoris Minichev, 1972 (Suborder Doridacea), with a new species of Akiodoris and a new family Akiodorididae. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 56[1], 1-22.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.