Polycera hummi

Polycera hummi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
Order: Nudibranchia
clade Euctenidiacea
clade Doridacea
Superfamily: Polyceroidea
Family: Polyceridae
Subfamily: Polycerinae
Genus: Polycera
Species: P. hummi
Binomial name
Polycera hummi
Abbott, 1952[1]

Polycera hummi is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Polyceridae.[2]

Distribution

This species was described from the Gulf of Mexico, Florida. It also occurs in North Carolina.[3]

References

  1. Abbott, Robert Tucker, (1952). "Two new opisthobranch mollusks from the Gulf of Mexico belonging to the genera Pleurobranchaea and Polycera." Florida State University Studies, No. 7, Papers from the Oceanographic Institute, pp. 1-7, pls. 1,2.
  2. Rosenberg, G. (2015). Polycera hummi. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2017-01-09.
  3. Valdés, Ángel; Hamann, Jeff; Behrens, David W.; DuPont, Anne. Caribbean Sea Slugs, Sea Challengers Natural History Books, Etc., Gig Harbor, Washington 2006, pp. 132-133. ISBN 0-9700574-2-3
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