Hoffmannola hansi

Hoffmannola hansi is a species of air-breathing sea slug, a shell-less marine pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Onchidiidae.[1]

Hoffmannola hansi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Systellommatophora
Family: Onchidiidae
Genus: Hoffmannola
Species:
H. hansi
Binomial name
Hoffmannola hansi
Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1967

Description

In the original description of Hoffmannola hansi[2] the authors Eveline Marcus and Ernst Marcus examine different specimens, noting that "The biggest slug is 48mm long measured over the back (26mm lineal), 20 mm broad and 16 mm high."

The species is named after the German zoologist Hans Hoffmann.

Distribution

Hoffmannola hansi is a species of air-breathing sea slug, a species which occurs in the Pacific coast of Mexican, from the Gulf of California (Baja California Norte, Sonora, Sinaloa) to Oaxaca.[3]

References
  1. Hoffmannola hansi Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1967. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 30 March 2010.
  2. Marcus Ev.; Marcus Er. American opisthobranch mollusks Part I, Tropical American opisthobranchs, Part II, Opisthobranchs from the Gulf of California. Stud. trop. Oceanogr. Miami 6: viii + 256 pp. December 1967
  3. Avila-Poveda, O.H.; Abadia-Chanona, Q.Y.; Herrera-Fragoso, R.; Dayrat, B. (2014). "Review of the geographic distribution of Hoffmannola hansi (Gastropoda: Pulmonata) in the Mexican Pacific". Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad. 85 (2): 463–471. doi:10.7550/rmb.34177.


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