Costasiella kuroshimae

Costasiella kuroshimae
Costasiella kuroshimae
Costasiella cf. kuroshimae on Avrainvillea erecta. Locality: Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef. The length of the slug is about 1 cm.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

informal group Opisthobranchia
clade Sacoglossa
clade Placobranchacea

Superfamily: Limapontioidea
Family: Limapontiidae
Genus: Costasiella
Species: C. kuroshimae
Binomial name
Costasiella kuroshimae
Ichikawa, 1993

Costasiella kuroshimae is a species of sacoglossan sea slug, a shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Limapontiidae.

The type locality is Kuroshima, Taketomi, Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands.[1]

References

  1. ^ Jensen K. R. (November 2007). "Biogeography of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia)". Bonner zoologische Beiträge 55(2006)(3-4): 255–281.