Pseudovermis hancocki

Taxobox
name = "Pseudovermis hancocki"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Heterobranchia
ordo = Opisthobranchia
subordo = Nudibranchia
superfamilia = Aeolidioidea
familia = Pseudovermidae
genus = "Pseudovermis"
genus_authority = Periaslavzeff, 1891
species = "P. hancocki"
binomial = "Pseudovermis hancocki"
binomial_authority = Challis, 1969
synonyms =

"Pseudovermis hancocki" is species of minute sea slug, specifically an aolid nudibranch, a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Pseudovermidae.

These extremely small sea slugs are meiofauna; they live among sand grains.

Distribution

This species is found on the north east coast of the North Island of New Zealand.

Habitat

The type specimen was found in sand.

Description

This minute aeolid is colourless, and has narrow elongated cerata, five on the left side of the body and four on the right.

Length is up to only 4 mm.

References

* Powell A. W. B., "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1