Crimora edwardsi

Crimora edwardsi is a species of colourful sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Polyceridae.[2]

Crimora edwardsi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Doridina
Superfamily: Polyceroidea
Family: Polyceridae
Genus: Crimora
Species:
C. edwardsi
Binomial name
Crimora edwardsi
(Angas, 1864)
Synonyms
  • Angasiella edwardsi Angas, 1864[1]
  • Nembrotha edwardsi (Angas, 1864)

Distribution

This species was described from Port Jackson, New South Wales, Australia.

Description

The illustration of Angas appears to show a species of Crimora, not Nembrotha. O'Donoghue (1924)[3] did not replace the name Nembrotha with Angasiella because he did not believe this species belonged to Nembrotha.[4] It has been rediscovered in southern Queensland.[5]

References
  1. Angas, G. F. (1864). Description d´éspèces nouvelles appartenant à plusieurs genres de mollusques nudibranches des environs de Port-Jackson (Nouvelle-Galles du Sud), accompagnée de dessins faits d´après nature. Journal de Conchyliologie. series 3(12): 43-70. page(s): 49-50, Plate 4, Figure 9
  2. MolluscaBase (2018). Crimora edwardsi (Angas, 1864). Accessed on 2019-10-13.
  3. O’Donoghue, C.H. (1924). Report on Opisthobranchiata from the Abrolhos Islands, Western Australia, with Description of a new parasitic Copepod. J. Linn. Soc., 35(237): 521-579.
  4. Pola M.; Cervera J. L.; Gosliner T. M. (2008). Revision of the Indo-Pacific genus Nembrotha (Nudibranchia: Dorididae: Polyceridae), with a description of two new species. Scientia Marina. 72(1):145-183.
  5. Cobb, G. & Burn, R., 2017. Crimora edwardsi (Angas, 1864). Nudibranchs of the Sunshine Coast. Accessed 2019-01-13.
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