Atagema echinata

Atagema echinata is a species of sea slug or dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Discodorididae.[2]

Atagema echinata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
Superfamily:
Doridoidea
Family:
Discodorididae
Genus:
Atagema
Species:
A. echinata
Binomial name
Atagema echinata
Pease, 1860[1]
Synonyms

Doris echinata Pease, 1860
Trippa echinata (Pease, 1860)

Distribution

This species was described from the Hawaiian Islands.[3] It has also been reported from the Mariana Islands.[4]

References
  1. Pease, William Harper. 1860. Descriptions of new species of Mollusca from the Sandwich Islands. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, pt. 28, pp. 18-36.
  2. Bouchet, P. (2016). Atagema echinata (Pease, 1860). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-10-24.
  3. Pittman, C. & Fiene, P. Atagema echinata. Sea slugs of Hawaii, accessed 2015-10-25.
  4. Carlson C. & Hoff P.J. (2003). The opisthobranchs of the Mariana Islands. Archived 2016-10-26 at the Wayback Machine Micronesica. 35-36:271-293.


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