Okenia elegans | |
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Rathlin Island, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Nudibranchia |
Suborder: | Doridina |
Superfamily: | Onchidoridoidea |
Family: | Goniodorididae |
Genus: | Okenia |
Species: | O. elegans
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Binomial name | |
Okenia elegans | |
Synonyms | |
Okenia elegans, the yellow skirt slug, is a species of a sea slug, specifically a dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Goniodorididae. [4] [5] It is the type species of its genus.
This species was described from near Sète on the Mediterranean Sea coast of France. It is reported from the adjacent Atlantic Ocean as far north as Scotland. [6] [7]
Okenia elegans | |
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Rathlin Island, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Nudibranchia |
Suborder: | Doridina |
Superfamily: | Onchidoridoidea |
Family: | Goniodorididae |
Genus: | Okenia |
Species: | O. elegans
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Binomial name | |
Okenia elegans | |
Synonyms | |
Okenia elegans, the yellow skirt slug, is a species of a sea slug, specifically a dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Goniodorididae. [4] [5] It is the type species of its genus.
This species was described from near Sète on the Mediterranean Sea coast of France. It is reported from the adjacent Atlantic Ocean as far north as Scotland. [6] [7]