Dendronotus gracilis

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Dendronotus gracilis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Cladobranchia
Family: Dendronotidae
Genus: Dendronotus
Species:
D. gracilis
Binomial name
Dendronotus gracilis
Baba, 1949 [1]

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

Distribution

This species was described from Sagami Bay, Japan. It has been reported from Okinawa and New Zealand. [3]

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References

  1. Baba, K. (1949). Opisthobranchia of Sagami Bay collected by His Majesty The Emperor of Japan. 194 pp., 50 pls. Iwanami Shoten, Tokyo.
  2. Bouchet, P. (2015). Dendronotus gracilis. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-02-08.
  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