Mexichromis multituberculata

Mexichromis multituberculata
Mexichromis multituberculata
Mexichromis multituberculata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Euctenidiacea
clade Doridacea

Superfamily: Doridoidea
Family: Chromodorididae
Genus: Mexichromis
Species: M. multituberculata
Binomial name
Mexichromis multituberculata
(Baba, 1953)[1]

Mexichromis multituberculata is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chromodorididae.[2]

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Distribution

This animal is known to exist in Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Sulawesi, Egypt, Thailand, Seto, Kii, Japan, Hainan Island and Hong Kong.[3][4]

A pair of Mexichromis multituberculata

Description

This species has purple spots around the edge of the mantle. The mantle also has scattered purple-tipped tubercules.[3]

References

  1. ^ Baba K. (1953). "Three new species and two new records of the genus Glossodoris from Japan". Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory 3: 205-211.
  2. ^ Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (Ed.); Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdes A. & Warén A. 2005. Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology, 47(1-2). ConchBooks: Hackenheim, Germany. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997. 397 pp. http://www.vliz.be/Vmdcdata/imis2/ref.php?refid=78278
  3. ^ a b http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet.cfm?base=meximult Mexichromis multituberculata (Baba, 1953). Sea Slug Forum, accessed 11 March 2009.
  4. ^ http://www.nudipixel.net/species/mexichromis_multituberculata/

Further reading

  • Rudman W. B. & Darvell B. W. (1990) "Opisthobranch Molluscs of Hong Kong: Part 1. Nudibranch Families; Goniodorididae, Onchidorididae, Triophidae, Gymnodorididae, Chromodorididae". Asian Marine Biology 7: 31-79.

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