Gulenia borealis

Gulenia borealis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Dexiarchia
clade Cladobranchia
clade Aeolidida
Superfamily: Flabellinoidea
Family: Coryphellidae
Genus: Gulenia
Species: G. borealis
Binomial name
Gulenia borealis
(Odhner, 1922)[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Coryphella borealis Odhner, 1922
  • Flabellina borealis (Odhner, 1922)

Gulenia borealis is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Coryphellidae.[2]

Distribution

This species was described from Norway. It has been found in deeper waters of the North Sea associated with the sea pen Funiculina quadrangularis.[3]

References

  1. Odhner, N. H. (1922). Norwegian opisthobranchiate Mollusca in the collections of the Zoological Museum of Kristiania. Nyt Magazin for Naturvidenskaberne 60:1-47, Accessed 2015.10.26
  2. 1 2 Gofas, S. (2015). Flabellina borealis (Odhner, 1922). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-10-26
  3. Korshunova, T.; Martynov, A.; Bakken, T.; Evertsen, J.; Fletcher, K.; Mudianta, W.; Saito, H.; Lundin, K.; Schrödl, M.; Picton, B. (2017). Polyphyly of the traditional family Flabellinidae affects a major group of Nudibranchia: aeolidacean taxonomic reassessment with descriptions of several new families, genera, and species (Mollusca, Gastropoda). ZooKeys. 717: 1-139.
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