Atagema echinata

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Atagema echinata
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Doridina
Superfamily: Doridoidea
Family: Discodorididae
Genus: Atagema
Species:
A. echinata
Binomial name
Atagema echinata
Pease, 1860 [1]
Synonyms

Doris echinata Pease, 1860
Trippa echinata (Pease, 1860)

Atagema echinata is a species of sea slug or dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Discodorididae. [2]

Distribution

This species was described from the Hawaiian Islands. [3] It has also been reported from the Mariana Islands. [4]

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References

  1. Pease, William Harper. 1860. Descriptions of new species of Mollusca from the Sandwich Islands. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, pt. 28, pp. 18-36.
  2. Bouchet, P. (2016). Atagema echinata (Pease, 1860). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-10-24.
  3. Pittman, C. & Fiene, P. Atagema echinata. Sea slugs of Hawaii, accessed 2015-10-25.
  4. Carlson C. & Hoff P.J. (2003). The opisthobranchs of the Mariana Islands. Archived 2016-10-26 at the Wayback Machine Micronesica. 35-36:271-293.