Anetarca piutaensis

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Anetarca piutaensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Dexiarchia
clade Cladobranchia
clade Aeolidida
Superfamily:
Aeolidioidea
Family:
Facelinidae
Genus:
Anetarca
Species:
A. piutaensis
Binomial name
Anetarca piutaensis
(Ortea, Caballer & Espinosa, 2003) [1]
Synonyms [2]
  • Cratena piutaensisOrtea, Caballer & Espinosa, 2003

Anetarca piutaensis is a species of sea slug, specifically an aeolid nudibranch. It is a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Facelinidae. [3]

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Distribution

This species was described from Punta Piuta, Limón Province, on the Caribbean Sea coast of Costa Rica.

Limón Province Province in Costa Rica

Limón is one of seven provinces in Costa Rica. The province covers an area of 9,189 km², and has a population of 386,862.

Caribbean Sea A sea of the Atlantic Ocean bounded by North, Central, and South America

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Costa Rica Country in Central America

Costa Rica, officially the Republic of Costa Rica, is a sovereign state in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the northeast, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, and Ecuador to the south of Cocos Island. It has a population of around 5 million in a land area of 51,060 square kilometers. An estimated 333,980 people live in the capital and largest city, San José with around 2 million people in the surrounding metropolitan area.

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References

  1. ↑ Ortea J., Caballer M. & Espinosa J. (2003) Nuevos Aeolidaceos (Mollusca: Gastropoda) de Costa Rica. Avicennia 16: 129-142. page: 130.
  2. ↑ Ortea J., Caballer M., Moro L. & Espinosa J. (2005). Sobre la validez de Cratena karouae Marcus, Er. 1957 (Mollusca: Nudibranchia: Facelinidae) y su ubicacion generica. Revista de la Academia Cabaria de Ciencias. XVI: 141-149. page: 144.
  3. ↑ Caballer, M. (2015). Anetarca piutaensis (Ortea, Caballer & Espinosa, 2003). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-12-17
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