Atagema ornata

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Atagema ornata
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Doridina
Superfamily: Doridoidea
Family: Discodorididae
Genus: Atagema
Species:
A. ornata
Binomial name
Atagema ornata
(Ehrenberg, 1831)
Synonyms
  • Doris ornata Ehrenberg, 1831 [1]
  • Doriopsis ornata Bergh, 1877
  • Trippa ornata (Ehrenberg, 1831)
  • Petelodoris triphylla Bergh, 1881 (doubtful)

Atagema ornata is a species of sea slug or dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Discodorididae. [2] It has been considered to be synonymous with Atagema intecta by some authors. [3]

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Distribution

This species was described from the Red Sea and is known from the Indian and western Pacific Oceans. [3]

Ecology

This dorid nudibranch feeds on sponges.

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References

  1. ↑ Ehrenberg, Christian Gottfried. 1828, 1831. Symbolae physicae seu icones et descriptiones animalium evertebratorum sepositis insectis quae ex itinere per Africam borealem et Asiam Occidentalem—novae aut illustratae redierunt. Decas 1 Mollusca.
  2. ↑ Bieler R, Bouchet P, Gofas S, Marshall B, Rosenberg G, La Perna R, Neubauer TA, Sartori AF, Schneider S, Vos C, ter Poorten JJ, Taylor J, Dijkstra H, Finn J, Bank R, Neubert E, Moretzsohn F, Faber M, Houart R, Picton B, Garcia-Alvarez O, eds. (2022). "Atagema ornata (Ehrenberg, 1831)". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 20 February 2022.
  3. 1 2 Valdés, Ángel; Gosliner, Terrence M. (2001). "Systematics and phylogeny of the caryophyllidia-bearing dorids (Mollusca, Nudibranchia), with descriptions of a new genus and four new species from Indo-Pacific deep waters". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 133 (2): 103–198. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2001.tb00689.x.


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