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Notaeolidia gigas

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Species of gastropod

Notaeolidia gigas
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Dexiarchia
clade Cladobranchia

clade Aeolidida
Superfamily: Flabellinoidea
Family: Notaeolidiidae
Genus: Notaeolidia
Species: N. gigas
Binomial name
Notaeolidia gigas
(Eliot, 1905)

Notaeolidia gigas is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Notaeolidiidae.

Distribution

This species was described from McMurdo Bay, Ross Sea, Antarctica. It has been reported from a number of Antarctic localities at depths of 3–50 m.

References

  1. Eliot, C. N. E. 1905. The Nudibranchiata of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 41(3) No. 22, pp. 519-532.
  2. Rosenberg, G. (2014). Notaeolidia gigas. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=533179 on 2015-02-13
  3. Wägele, H. 1990. Revision of the Antarctic genus Notaeolidia (Gastropoda, Nudibranchia), with a description of a new species. Zoologica Scripta 19(3): 309-330.
  4. Rudman, W.B., 1999 (February 10) Notaeolidia gigas Eliot, 1905. Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
Taxon identifiers
Notaeolidia gigas
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