Felimare porterae

Felimare porterae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Euctenidiacea
clade Doridacea

Superfamily: Doridoidea
Family: Chromodorididae
Genus: Felimare
Species: F. porterae
Binomial name
Felimare porterae
(Cockerell, 1901)
Synonyms[1]
  • Chromodoris porterae Cockerell, 1901 (Basionym)
  • Glossodoris porterae (Cockerell, 1901)
  • Hypselodoris porterae (Cockerell, 1901)
  • Mexichromis porterae (Cockerell, 1901)

Felimare porterae is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chromodorididae.[1] It was named by Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell in honor of his botanist wife Wilmatte Porter Cockerell.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Rudman W.B. (1984) The Chromodorididae (Opisthobranchia: Mollusca) of the Indo-West Pacific: a review of the genera. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 81 (2/3): 115-273. page(s): 211 Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=597534 on 28 May 2012
  2. "Wilmatte Porter Cockerell (1871-1957) and Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell (1866-1948) 1935". Smithsonian Institution Archives. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 20 March 2015.
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