Acanthodoris armata

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

Acanthodoris armata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Doridina
Superfamily: Onchidoridoidea
Family: Onchidorididae
Genus: Acanthodoris
Species:
A. armata
Binomial name
Acanthodoris armata

This is a taxon inquirendum.

Distribution

This species was described from specimens found in the intertidal region at False Narrows, Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, Canada feeding on the bryozoan Dendrobeania lichenoides (Robertson, 1900).[1]

References

  1. O’Donoghue, C., (1927). Notes on the Nudibranchiate Mollusca from the Vancouver Island Region. 5. Transactions of the Royal Canadian Institute, vol. 16, pp. 1–12, pl. 1.
  2. Rosenberg, G. (2015). Acanthodoris armata O'Donoghue, 1927. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-01-11.
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