Okenia elegans
| Okenia elegans | |
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| Drawing of Okenia elegans from Kunstformen der Natur (1904) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Onchidoridoidea |
| Family: | Goniodorididae |
| Genus: | Okenia |
| Species: | O. elegans |
| Binomial name | |
| Okenia elegans (Leuckart, 1828)[1] | |
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Okenia elegans is a species of a sea slug, specifically a dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Goniodorididae.[2]
The nudibranch Okenia elegans, Rathlin Island, Co Antrim, Ireland.
Distribution
This species was described from near Cette on the Mediterranean Sea coast of France. It is reported from the adjacent Atlantic Ocean as far north as Scotland.[3][4]
References
- ↑ Leuckart F. S. (1828). Breves animalium quorundam maxima ex parte marinorum descriptiones. Heidelberg, Oßwald, 24 pp., Okenia elegans is on the page 15, one unnumbered plate, figures 2a-b.
- ↑ Gofas, S. (2015). Okenia elegans (Leuckart, 1828). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-02-21.
- ↑ Rudman, W.B., 2007 (July 26) Okenia elegans (Leuckart, 1828). [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
- ↑ Picton, B.E. & Morrow, C.C. (2015). Okenia elegans (Leuckart, 1828). [In] Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland. Accessed on 2016-2-21.
- Philippi R. A., 1841: Zoologische Bemerkungen; Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin 7: 42-59; pl. 5
- Philippi R. A., 1844: Enumeratio molluscorum Siciliae cum viventium tum in tellure tertiaria fossilium, quae in itinere suo observavit. Vol. 2 ; Eduard Anton, Halle [Halis Saxorum] iv + 303 p., pl. 13-28
- Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213.
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