Dermatobranchus albineus
Dermatobranchus albineus is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Arminidae.[2]
| Dermatobranchus albineus | |
|---|---|
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| Llandudno, South Africa | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Suborder: | Cladobranchia |
| Superfamily: | Arminidae |
| Genus: | Dermatobranchus |
| Species: | D. albineus |
| Binomial name | |
| Dermatobranchus albineus Gosliner & Fahey, 2011 [1] | |
Distribution
This species was described from Hottentots Huisie (Oudekraal), Atlantic coast, Cape Peninsula, Cape Province, South Africa 33°59.2407′S 18°20.81224′E at 7 m depth. Multiple specimens from this locality and east as far as Algoa Bay, Port Elizabeth were included in the original description.
References
- 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.
- Bouchet, P. (2015). Dermatobranchus albineus. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-09-30
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