Okadaia cinnabareus

Okadaia cinnabareus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia informal group Opisthobranchia clade Nudipleura clade Nudibranchia
Family:	Okadidae
Genus:	Okadaia Baba, 1930
Species:	O. cinnabareus
Binomial name
Okadaia cinnabareus (Ralph, 1944)[1]
Synonyms
Pellibranchus cinnabareus Ralph, 1944

Okadaia cinnabareus is a species of minute sea slug, a dorid nudibranch in the gastropod family Okadidae.

This species feeds on Spirorbis tube worms. [1]

Distribution

• New Zealand

References

1. ^ Ralph P. M. (June) 1944. Pellibranchus cinnabareus, a New Genus and Species of Non-Pelagic Nudibranch Mollusc of the Family Phyllirhoidae. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Volume 74, 1944-45, 24-31.

Further reading

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