Cabangus noahi

Cabangus noahi is a species of sea slug, a dendronotid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dendronotidae.[2]

Cabangus noahi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Dexiarchia
clade Cladobranchia

clade Dendronotida
Superfamily:
Dendronotoidea
Family:
Dendronotidae
Genus:
Cabangus
Species:
C. noahi
Binomial name
Cabangus noahi
Pola & Stout, 2008[1]

Distribution

This species was described from the outer barrier reef off New Year’s Bay, Bagabag Island, Papua New Guinea.[1]

Habitat

Cabangus noahi was found under coral on an exposed reef slope at 20 m depth.[1][3]

References
  1. Pola M. & Stout C.C. (2008). Description of the first two tropical Indo-Pacific species of Dendronotus (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia) with new data of the poorly known species Dendronotus gracilis Baba, 1949. Zootaxa, 1960: 45-66
  2. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Cabangus noahi (Pola & Stout, 2008). Accessed on 2020-09-03.
  3. Gosliner, T.M., Valdés, A. & Behrens, D.W. (2015). Nudibranch and Sea Slug Identification - Indo-Pacific. New World Publications, Jacksonville, Florida, 408 pp., page 311.
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