Dermatobranchus fortunatus

Dermatobranchus fortunatus is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Arminidae.[2]

Dermatobranchus fortunatus
The nudibranch Dermatobranchus fortunatus, Lipah Bay, Amed, Bali.
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:
Dermatobranchus
Species:
D. fortunatus
Binomial name
Dermatobranchus fortunatus
Bergh, 1888 [1]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indo-Pacific region. It was described from Java, Indonesia.[1] It has been reported from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia,[3] Okinawa, Japan,[4] the Seychelles, Marshall Islands, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, eastern Malaysia, and the Philippines.[5]

References
  1. Bergh R. 1888. Die Pleuroleuriden, eine Familie der Nudibranchiaten Gasträopoden. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung Für Systematik Geographie Und Biologie Der Tiere 36: 348–364.
  2. Bouchet, P. (2015). Dermatobranchus fortunatus. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-09-30
  3. Marshall J.G., Willan R.C. 1999. Nudibranchs of Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef. Leiden: Backhuys.
  4. Bolland R. 2003. Okinawa SlugSite. Available at: http://rfbolland.com/okislugs/index.html
  5. 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.
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