Armina californica

Armina californica is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Arminidae.[1]

Armina californica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Dexiarchia
clade Cladobranchia
clade Euarminida
Superfamily:
Arminoidea
Family:
Arminidae
Genus:
Armina
Species:
A. californica
Binomial name
Armina californica
(J. G. Cooper, 1863)
Synonyms[1]
  • Armina columbiana O'Donoghue, 1924
  • Armina digueti Pruvot-Fol, 1956
  • Armina vancouverensis (Bergh, 1876)
  • Pleurophyllidia californica Cooper, 1863 (basionym)

This species occurs in the Eastern Pacific Ocean from Vancouver Island to Panama.

References
  1. Rosenberg, G.; Bouchet, P. (2011). Armina californica (J. G. Cooper, 1863). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=558913 on 2012-04-15
  • SeaSlug info at:
  • Slugsite info at:
  • Baez D.P., Ardila N., Valdés A. & Acero A. (2011) Taxonomy and phylogeny of Armina (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia: Arminidae) from the Atlantic and eastern Pacific. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 91(5): 1107-1121.
  • Gosliner T.M. & Fahey S.J. (2011) Previously undocumented diversity and abundance of cryptic species: a phylogenetic analysis of Indo-Pacific Arminidae Rafinesque, 1814 (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) with descriptions of 20 new species of Dermatobranchus. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 161: 245–356. p. 2582


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