Felimare garciagomezi

Felimare garciagomezi is a species of colourful sea slug or dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Chromodorididae.[2][3]

Felimare garciagomezi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Doridina
Superfamily: Doridoidea
Family: Chromodorididae
Genus: Felimare
Species:
F. garciagomezi
Binomial name
Felimare garciagomezi
(Ortea & Valdés, 1996)[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Mexichromis garciagomezi Ortea & Valdés, 1996 (basionym)

Distribution

This species was described by Edmunds from Ghana as a variation of Hypselodoris tricolor.[4] It was named as a new species in the revision of Ortea et al.[1]

References

  1. Ortea, J., Valdés, Á. & García-Gómez, J.C. (1996). Revisión de las especies atlánticas de la familia Chromodorididae (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) del grupo cromático azul. Avicennia suplemento 1: 1-165.
  2. Bouchet, P. (2012). Felimare garciagomezi. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2012-05-11
  3. Johnson R.F. & Gosliner T.M. (2012) Traditional taxonomic groupings mask evolutionary history: A molecular phylogeny and new classification of the chromodorid nudibranchs. PLoS ONE 7(4): e33479
  4. Edmunds, M. 1981. Opisthobranchiate Mollusca from Ghana: Chromodorididae. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 72(2):175-201.
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