| Dermatobranchus arminus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Suborder: | Cladobranchia |
| Family: | Arminidae |
| Genus: | Dermatobranchus |
| Species: | D. arminus |
| Binomial name | |
| Dermatobranchus arminus Gosliner & Fahey, 2011 | |
Dermatobranchus arminus is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Arminidae.
Description
Thie size of this marine species attains 20 mm.
This species is small-bodied, with opaque white ridges along the body marked by dark brown blotches. The body is pale with faint brown saddle-like markings. The rhinophores (chemosensory tentacles) are small, oval, and have longitudinal ridges.
Color: Pale-bodied, indistinctly brown saddled nudibranch with raised opaque white longitudinal ridges having dark blotches along them.
Distribution
This species was described from Bakoven on the Atlantic Coast of Western Cape Province, South Africa, usually deeper than 20 m.
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.
- Dermatobranchus arminus Gosliner & Fahey, 2011. 30 October 2024. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- ^ Herbert, D.G., Jones, G.J. & Atkinson, L.J. (2018). Phylum Mollusca. In: Atkinson, L.J. and Sink, K.J. (eds) Field Guide to the Offshore Marine Invertebrates of South Africa. Pretoria: Malachite Marketing and Media. p. 289. doi:10.15493/SAEON.PUB.10000001. ISBN 978-1-86868-098-6. Retrieved 26 October 2024.
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- Gosliner, T. (2023). Southern African Sea Slugs. Cape Town: Southern Underwater Research Group Press.
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| Dermatobranchus arminus | |