| Amphorina pallida | |
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| Plate from Alder & Hancock (1845-1855) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Aeolidida |
| Superfamily: | Fionoidea |
| Family: | Eubranchidae |
| Genus: | Amphorina |
| Species: | A. pallidus |
| Binomial name | |
| Amphorina pallidus (Alder & Hancock, 1842) | |
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Amphorina pallida is a species of sea slug or nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Eubranchidae. Several species of Eubranchus were transferred to Amphorina in 2020.
Distribution
This species was described from Cullercoats, England. It has been reported from Eastport, Maine; Iceland, the Barents Sea and the Atlantic coast of Europe from Norway south to the Mediterranean Sea.
References
- ^ Alder J. & Hancock A. (1842). Descriptions of several new species of nudibranchous mollusca found on the coast of Northumberland. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9: 31-36.
- MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Amphorina pallida (Alder & Hancock, 1842). Accessed on 2020-04-04.
- Korshunova, T.; Malmberg, K.; Prkić, J.; Petani, A.; Fletcher, K.; Lundin, K.; Martynov, A. (2020). Fine-scale species delimitation: speciation in process and periodic patterns in nudibranch diversity. ZooKeys. 917: 15-50.
- Rudman, W.B., 1999 (August 29) Eubranchus pallidus (Alder & Hancock, 1842). Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
- Picton, B.E. & Morrow, C.C. (2015). Eubranchus pallidus (Alder & Hancock, 1842). Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland. Accessed on 2016-01-03
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Eubranchus pallidus | |
| Eolis pallida | |