Eubranchus rupium

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Green balloon aeolid
Eubranchus rupium from Patrick's Point State Park, California.jpg
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Cladobranchia
Superfamily: Fionoidea
Family: Eubranchidae
Genus: Eubranchus
Species:
E. rupium
Binomial name
Eubranchus rupium
(Møller, 1842) [1]
Synonyms
  • Galvina rupium(Møller, 1842)
  • Nudibranchus rupium(Møller, 1842)
  • Tergipes rupium Møller, 1842

Eubranchus rupium, the green balloon aeolid, is a species of sea slug or nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Eubranchidae. [2]

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Distribution

This species was described from Greenland. It is reported from the North Atlantic Ocean as far south as the Netherlands and is considered to be a circumpolar species. It is considered by most authors to be a synonym of Eubranchus olivaceus and is reported as far south as Monterey Bay, California on the Pacific Ocean coast of North America. [3] [4] [5]

Biology

This nudibranch feeds on the hydroids Laomedea longissima . [4]

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References

  1. Møller, Hans Peter Christian. 1842. Index molluscorum Groenlandiæ naturhist. Tidskr. Kjöbenhavn 4(1):76-97.
  2. Caballer, M.; Gofas, S. (2015). Eubranchus rupium (Møller, 1842). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-01-01.
  3. McDonald, G., (2015) Eubranchus rupium. Intertidal Invertebrates of the Monterey Bay Area, California.
  4. 1 2 Rudman, W.B., 2003 (July 14) Eubranchus rupium (Moller, 1842). [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
  5. Goddard, J. H. R., & Nora R. Foster. 2002. Range extensions of sacoglossan and nudibranch mollusks (Gastropoda : Opisthobranchia) to Alaska. Veliger 45(4):331-336.