Atagema spinosa

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Atagema spinosa
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Doridina
Superfamily: Doridoidea
Family: Discodorididae
Genus: Atagema
Species:
A. spinosa
Binomial name
Atagema spinosa
(Risbec, 1928) [1]
Synonyms

Trippa spinosa Risbec, 1928

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

Distribution

This species was described from New Caledonia.

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References

  1. Risbec, J. 1928. Contribution a l'étude des nudibranches Néo-Calédoniens. Thèse présentée à la faculté des sciences de l'Université de Paris pour obtenir le grade de docteur ès-sciences naturelles. Faune des Colonies Française 2(1):1-328, pls. 1-12.
  2. Sartori, André F. (2015). Atagema spinosa (Risbec, 1928). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-10-26.