Amphorina pallida

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Amphorina pallida
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Plate from Alder & Hancock (1845-1855)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Dexiarchia
clade Cladobranchia
clade Aeolidida
Superfamily:
Fionoidea
Family:
Eubranchidae
Genus:
Amphorina
Species:
A. pallidus
Binomial name
Amphorina pallidus
(Alder & Hancock, 1842) [1]
Synonyms
  • Eolis pallidaAlder & Hancock, 1842
  • Eolis pictaAlder & Hancock, 1847

Amphorina pallida is a species of sea slug or nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Eubranchidae. [2] Several species of Eubranchus were transferred to Amphorina in 2020. [3]

The nudibranch Amphorina pallida, Gulen Dive Resort, Norway. B147431-1.jpg
The nudibranch Amphorina pallida, Gulen Dive Resort, Norway.

Distribution

This species was described from Cullercoats, England. [1] It has been reported from Eastport, Maine; Iceland, the Barents Sea and the Atlantic coast of Europe from Norway south to the Mediterranean Sea. [4] [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 Alder J. & Hancock A. (1842). Descriptions of several new species of nudibranchous mollusca found on the coast of Northumberland. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9: 31-36.
  2. ↑ MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Amphorina pallida (Alder & Hancock, 1842). Accessed on 2020-04-04.
  3. ↑ Korshunova, T.; Malmberg, K.; Prkić, J.; Petani, A.; Fletcher, K.; Lundin, K.; Martynov, A. (2020). Fine-scale species delimitation: speciation in process and periodic patterns in nudibranch diversity. ZooKeys. 917: 15-50.
  4. ↑ Rudman, W.B., 1999 (August 29) Eubranchus pallidus (Alder & Hancock, 1842). [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
  5. ↑ Picton, B.E. & Morrow, C.C. (2015). Eubranchus pallidus (Alder & Hancock, 1842). [In] Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland. Accessed on 2016-01-03
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