Aegires lemoncello

Aegires lemoncello
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Euctenidiacea
clade Doridacea

Superfamily: Polyceroidea
Family: Aegiridae
Genus: Aegires
Species: A. lemoncello
Binomial name
Aegires lemoncello
Fahey & Gosliner, 2004[1]

Aegires lemoncello is a species of sea slug. It is a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Aegiridae.[2]

Distribution

This species was described from Barracuda Point, Pig Island, Madang, Papua New Guinea.[1] It has also been reported from New Caledonia and South Africa.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 Fahey S. J. & Gosliner T. M. (2004). A Phylogenetic Analysis of the Aegiridae Fischer, 1883 (Mollusca, Nudibranchia, Phanerobranchia) with Descriptions of Eight New Species and a Reassessment of Phanerobranch Relationships. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 55(34): 613-689.
  2. Bouchet, P. (2015). Aegires lemoncello Fahey & Gosliner, 2004. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-01-07
  3. Fahey, S. J. & Gosliner, T. M., 2005 (July 5) Aegires lemoncello Fahey and Gosliner, 2004. [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
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