Hermaea bifida

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Hermaea bifida
Hermaea bifida.png
Drawing of Hermaea bifida from Kunstformen der Natur (1904)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
informal group Opisthobranchia
clade Sacoglossa
clade Plakobranchacea
Superfamily:
Limapontioidea
Family:
Hermaeidae
Genus:
Hermaea
Species:
H. bifida
Binomial name
Hermaea bifida
(Montagu, 1815) [1]
Synonyms
  • Doris bifidaMontagu, 1815 [1]
  • Hermaea hancockiiTrinchese, 1877
  • Physopneumon carneumA. Costa, 1864
  • Physopneumon corneus [sic] (misspelling)

Hermaea bifida is a species of sacoglossan sea slug, a shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Hermaeidae. [2]

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Distribution

The type locality for this species is the coast of Devon, South West England, United Kingdom. [1] [3] It occurs also in the North Atlantic Ocean and in the Caribbean Sea.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Montagu G. (1815) "An account of some new and rare British shells and animals". Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 11(2): 179-204. Hermaea bifida is on pages 198-199. Plate 14, figure 2.
  2. ↑ Gofas, S. (2015). Hermaea bifida (Montagu, 1816). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140092 on 2015-04-28
  3. ↑ Jensen K. R. (November 2007). "Biogeography of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia)" Archived 2013-10-05 at the Wayback Machine . Bonner zoologische Beiträge 55(2006)(3-4): 255–281.


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