Amphorina pallida
| Amphorina pallida | |
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| Plate from Alder & Hancock (1845-1855) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Suborder: | Cladobranchia |
| Superfamily: | Fionoidea |
| Family: | Eubranchidae |
| Genus: | Amphorina |
| Species: | A. pallida
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| Binomial name | |
| Amphorina pallida | |
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Amphorina pallida is a species of sea slug or nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Eubranchidae.[2] Several species of Eubranchus were transferred to Amphorina in 2020.[3]
Distribution
This species was described from Cullercoats, England.[1] It has been reported from Eastport, Maine; Iceland, the Barents Sea and the Atlantic coast of Europe from Norway south to the Mediterranean Sea.[4][5]
References
- ^ a b Alder, Joshua; Hancock, Albany (1842). "Descriptions of several new species of nudibranchous Mollusca found on the coast of Northumberland". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 9 (55): 31–36 [35].
- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Amphorina pallida (Alder & Hancock, 1842). Accessed on 2020-04-04.
- ^ Korshunova, Tatiana; Malmberg, Klas; Prkić, Jakov; Petani, Alen; Fletcher, Karin; Lundin, Kennet; Martynov, Alexander (2020). "Fine-scale species delimitation: Speciation in process and periodic patterns in nudibranch diversity". ZooKeys (917): 15–50. Bibcode:2020ZooK..917...15K. doi:10.3897/zookeys.917.47444. PMC 7076062. PMID 32206016.
- ^ Rudman, W.B., 1999 (August 29) Eubranchus pallidus (Alder & Hancock, 1842). [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
- ^ Picton, B.E. & Morrow, C.C. (2015). Eubranchus pallidus (Alder & Hancock, 1842). [In] Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland. Accessed on 2016-01-03