Cabangus noahi

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Cabangus noahi
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Cladobranchia
Family: Dendronotidae
Genus: Cabangus
Species:
C. noahi
Binomial name
Cabangus noahi
Pola & Stout, 2008 [1]

Cabangus noahi is a species of sea slug, a dendronotid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dendronotidae. [2]

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Distribution

This species was described from the outer barrier reef off New Year's Bay, Bagabag Island, Papua New Guinea. [1]

Habitat

Cabangus noahi was found under coral on an exposed reef slope at 20 m depth. [1] [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Pola M. & Stout C.C. (2008). Description of the first two tropical Indo-Pacific species of Dendronotus (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia) with new data of the poorly known species Dendronotus gracilis Baba, 1949. Zootaxa, 1960: 45-66
  2. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Cabangus noahi (Pola & Stout, 2008). Accessed on 2020-09-03.
  3. Gosliner, T.M., Valdés, A. & Behrens, D.W. (2015). Nudibranch and Sea Slug Identification - Indo-Pacific. New World Publications, Jacksonville, Florida, 408 pp., page 311.