Acanthodoris caerulescens

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Acanthodoris caerulescens
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Doridina
Superfamily: Onchidoridoidea
Family: Onchidorididae
Genus: Acanthodoris
Species:
A. caerulescens
Binomial name
Acanthodoris caerulescens
Bergh, 1880 [1]

Acanthodoris caerulescens is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Onchidorididae. [2] [3]

This is a taxon inquirendum.

Distribution

This species was described from the north end of Nunivak Island, Alaska. It has not been reported since the original description. [4] [5]

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References

  1. Bergh, L. S. R. (1880) On the nudibranchiate gasteropod Mollusca of the North Pacific Ocean, with special reference to those of Alaska. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences Philadelphia, pp. 40-127, pls. 9-16.
  2. Rosenberg, G. (2015). Acanthodoris caerulescens Bergh, 1880. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-01-11.
  3. Turgeon, D.; Quinn, J.F.; Bogan, A.E.; Coan, E.V.; Hochberg, F.G.; Lyons, W.G.; Mikkelsen, P.M.; Neves, R.J.; Roper, C.F.E.; Rosenberg, G.; Roth, B.; Scheltema, A.; Thompson, F.G.; Vecchione, M.; Williams, J.D. (1998). Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: mollusks. 2nd ed. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, 26. American Fisheries Society: Bethesda, MD (USA). ISBN   1-888569-01-8. IX, 526 + cd-rom pp.
  4. Lee, R. S., & Nora R. Foster. (1985) A distributional list with range extensions of the opisthobranch gastropods of Alaska. Veliger 27(4):440-448.
  5. Fahey S. & Valdés A. (2005). A review of Acanthodoris Gray, 1850 with a Phylogenetic Analysis of Onchidorididae Alder and Hancock, 1845 (Mollusca, Nudibranchia). Archived July 21, 2011, at the Wayback Machine Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 56: 213-272.