Berghia amakusana

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Berghia amakusana
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Cladobranchia
Family: Aeolidiidae
Genus: Berghia
Species:
B. amakusana
Binomial name
Berghia amakusana
(Baba, 1937) [1]
Synonyms
  • Baeolidia major amakusana Baba, 1937
  • Baeolidia major Baba, non Eliot [2]

Berghia amakusana is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch. It is a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Aeolidiidae. [3]

Distribution

This species was described from Tomioka, Fukushima, Japan.

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References

  1. Baba, K. (1937). Opisthobranchia of Japan (II). Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Kyushu Imperial University 5(7):289-344, pls. 1-2.
  2. Baba, K. (1933). Annotationes Zoologicae Japonenses, vol. 14, no. 1, 1933, p. 178.
  3. WoRMS (2014). Berghia amakusana (Baba, 1937). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-02-23