Felimare sycilla

Felimare sycilla
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
Superfamily: Doridoidea
Family: Chromodorididae
Genus: Felimare
Species: F. sycilla
Binomial name
Felimare sycilla
(Bergh, 1890)[1]
Synonyms
  • Chromodoris sycilla Bergh, 1890 (original combination)
  • Hypselodoris sycilla (Bergh, 1890)

Felimare sycilla is a species of colourful sea slug or dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chromodorididae.[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico

Description

The maximum recorded body length is 25 mm.[3]

Habitat

Minimum recorded depth is 0 m.[3] Maximum recorded depth is 26 m.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Bergh, R. (1890). "Reports on the results of dredging, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877-78) and in the Caribbean Sea (1879-80), by the U. S. Coast Survey Steamer "Blake"". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 19: 155-181, 3 pls.
  2. ↑ Ortea, J., Valdés, Á. & García-Gómez, J.C. (1996). Revisión de las especies atlánticas de la familia Chromodorididae (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) del grupo cromático azul. Avicennia suplemento 1: 1-165 page(s): 134 Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=564016 on 2012-02-26
  3. 1 2 3 Welch J. J. (2010). "The “Island Rule” and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". PLoS ONE 5(1): e8776. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008776.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.