Lomanotus vermiformis

Lomanotus vermiformis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Dexiarchia
clade Cladobranchia
clade Dendronotida

Superfamily: Tritonioidea
Family: Lomanotidae
Genus: Lomanotus
Species: L. vermiformis
Binomial name
Lomanotus vermiformis
Eliot, 1908[1]
Synonyms
  • Lomanotus stauberi Clark & Goetzfried, 1976

Lomanotus vermiformis is a species of sea slug, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Lomanotidae.[2]

Distribution

This species was described from the Red Sea.[1] It has also been reported widely from tropical seas in the Indo-Pacific region. This species was synonymised with the Caribbean species Lomanotus stauberi in 1988 [3]

Ecology

Lomanotus vermiformis feeds on the common stinging hydroid Lytocarpus philippinus.

References

  1. 1 2 Eliot, C.N.E., 1908. Reports on the marine biology of the Sudanese Red Sea XI. Notes on a collection of nudibranchs from the Red Sea. Journal of the Linnean Society. Zoology, 31: 86-122.
  2. ↑ Rosenberg, G. (2014). Lomanotus vermiformis Eliot, 1908. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=532992 on 2014-10-09
  3. ↑ Willan, R.C., 1988. The taxonomy of two host-specific, cryptic dendronotoid nudibranch species (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from Australia including a new species description. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 94 1: 39-64.

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