Aeolidiella glauca | |
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The nudibranch Aeolidiella glauca, Strangford Lough, Irish Sea. | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Nudibranchia |
Suborder: | Cladobranchia |
Family: | Aeolidiidae |
Genus: | Aeolidiella |
Species: | A. glauca
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Binomial name | |
Aeolidiella glauca | |
Synonyms [2] | |
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Aeolidiella glauca is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch in the family Aeolidiidae. [2]
The body of this nudibranch attains a length of 45 mm. It is orange-brown in colour with extensive fawn or light brown surface pigment both on the dorsum and in a rim around the edge of the foot. The cerata are covered with dense flecks of fawn-coloured pigment. The outer half of the oral tentacles and rhinophores are similarly pigmented. [3] [4]
The body is the host of the ectoparasitic copepods Doridicola agilis Leydig, 1853 and Splanchnotrophus angulatus Hecht, 1893.
This species was described from Berry Head, Torbay, England. [5] It has subsequently been reported from Norway, Great Britain, Ireland, Denmark, and the Atlantic coast of France south to Arcachon Bay. [6]
Aeolidiella glauca | |
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The nudibranch Aeolidiella glauca, Strangford Lough, Irish Sea. | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Nudibranchia |
Suborder: | Cladobranchia |
Family: | Aeolidiidae |
Genus: | Aeolidiella |
Species: | A. glauca
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Binomial name | |
Aeolidiella glauca | |
Synonyms [2] | |
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Aeolidiella glauca is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch in the family Aeolidiidae. [2]
The body of this nudibranch attains a length of 45 mm. It is orange-brown in colour with extensive fawn or light brown surface pigment both on the dorsum and in a rim around the edge of the foot. The cerata are covered with dense flecks of fawn-coloured pigment. The outer half of the oral tentacles and rhinophores are similarly pigmented. [3] [4]
The body is the host of the ectoparasitic copepods Doridicola agilis Leydig, 1853 and Splanchnotrophus angulatus Hecht, 1893.
This species was described from Berry Head, Torbay, England. [5] It has subsequently been reported from Norway, Great Britain, Ireland, Denmark, and the Atlantic coast of France south to Arcachon Bay. [6]