Knoutsodonta albonigra

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Knoutsodonta albonigra
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Doridina
Superfamily: Onchidoridoidea
Family: Onchidorididae
Genus: Knoutsodonta
Species:
K. albonigra
Binomial name
Knoutsodonta albonigra
(Pruvot-Fol, 1951) [1]
Synonyms [2]
  • Lamellidoris albonigraPruvot-Fol, 1951 ([basionym])
  • Onchidoris albonigra(Pruvot-Fol, 1951)

Knoutsodonta albonigra is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Onchidorididae. [2]

Distribution

This species was described from Banyuls-sur-Mer on the Mediterranean Sea coast of France. It has been reported from the Bay of Naples, Italy and the Catalan coast of Spain at Cadaqués and some other location in the Costa Brava. [3]

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Alice Pruvot-Fol was a French opisthobranch malacologist.

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References

  1. Pruvot-Fol A. (1951). Etudes des nudibranches de la Méditerranée 2. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 88: 1-80.
  2. 1 2 MolluscaBase (2018). Knoutsodonta albonigra (Pruvot-Fol, 1951). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2018-09-10.
  3. Ballesteros, M., E. Madrenas, M. Pontes et al. (2012-2016) Onchidoris albonigra in OPK-Opistobranquis, Published: 29/08/2012, Accessed: 20/01/2016.