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Dermatobranchus caeruleomaculatus

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Species of gastropod

Dermatobranchus caeruleomaculatus
The nudibranch Dermatobranchus caeruleomaculatus, Bima, Sumbawa, Indonesia.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Cladobranchia
Family: Arminidae
Genus: Dermatobranchus
Species: D. caeruleomaculatus
Binomial name
Dermatobranchus caeruleomaculatus
Gosliner & Fahey, 2011

Dermatobranchus caeruleomaculatus is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Arminidae.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indo-Pacific region. It was described from Waterfall Bay, south side Tioman Island, east Malaysia. It is also known from Indonesia, the Philippines and Papua New Guinea.

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. Bouchet, P. (2015). Dermatobranchus caeruleomaculatus. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-09-30
Taxon identifiers
Dermatobranchus caeruleomaculatus
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