Armina gilchristi

Armina gilchristi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Dexiarchia
clade Cladobranchia
clade Euarminida
Superfamily: Arminoidea
Family: Arminidae
Genus: Armina
Species: A. gilchristi
Binomial name
Armina gilchristi
White, 1955

Armina gilchristi is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Arminidae.[1]

Description

This species has a dark, grey and black mantle with longitudinal white, granulose ridges.[2][3]

Distribution

Armina gilchristi is endemic to the waters off Southern Africa.[2]

References

  1. "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Armina gilchristi White, 1955".
  2. 1 2 Gosliner, Terrence M.; Fahey, Shireen J. (1 February 2011). "Previously undocumented diversity and abundance of cryptic species: a phylogenetic analysis of Indo-Pacific Arminidae Rafinesque, 1814 (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) with descriptions of 20 new species of Dermatobranchus". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 161 (2): 245–356. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00649.x. PMC 3073124. PMID 21527987 via PubMed Central.
  3. "Armina gilchristi White, 1955 - Arminidae » Nudi Pixel".


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