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Doris caeca

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Species of gastropod

Doris caeca
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Family: Dorididae
Genus: Doris
Species: D. caeca
Binomial name
Doris caeca
(Valdés, 2001)
Synonyms
  • Austrodoris caeca Valdés, 2001

Doris caeca is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dorididae.

Distribution

This species was described from 791 to 795 m depth, Banc Combe, in the Pacific Ocean 12°15′S 177°28′W / 12.250°S 177.467°W / -12.250; -177.467 and a number of sites in the same area, to as far south as New Caledonia 23°10′S 166°43′E / 23.167°S 166.717°E / -23.167; 166.717 between 650 and 1300 m depth.

References

  1. ^ Valdés Á. 2001. Deep-sea cryptobranch dorid nudibranchs (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia) from the tropical West Pacific, with descriptions of two new genera and eighteen new species. Malacologia 43 (1-2) : 237-311.
  2. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Doris caeca (Valdés, 2001). Accessed on 2021-03-27.
Taxon identifiers
Doris caeca
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