Facelina olivacea

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Facelina olivacea
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Cladobranchia
Family: Facelinidae
Genus: Facelina
Species:
F. olivacea
Binomial name
Facelina olivacea
Macnae, 1954 [1]

Facelina olivacea is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Facelinidae. [2]

Distribution

This species was described from Table Bay Harbour and Saldanha, Western Cape, South Africa. [1] It is endemic to the Cape Province of South Africa. [3] It has also been found at Knysna and Jeffrey's Bay, Eastern Cape on the Indian Ocean coast. [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 MacNae, William. 1954. On some eolidacean nudibranchiate molluscs from South Africa. [ permanent dead link ] Annals of the Natal Museum 13(1):1-50, pls. 1-2.
  2. Sartori, André F. (2015). Facelina olivacea Macnae, 1954. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-12-25
  3. Willan, R. (2015) Facelina olivacea. Archived 2017-10-22 at the Wayback Machine At Nudipixel.net.
  4. Gosliner, T.M. 1987. Nudibranchs of Southern Africa. ISBN   0-930118-13-8. Page 121.