Marionia pellucida

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Marionia pellucida
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Cladobranchia
Family: Tritoniidae
Genus: Marionia
Species:
M. pellucida
Binomial name
Marionia pellucida
Eliot, 1904 [1]

Marionia pellucida is a species of sea slug, a dendronotid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Tritoniidae. [2]

Distribution

This species was described from near Wasin, Kenya, East Africa, where it was dredged in 18 m of water. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Eliot, C. N. E. (1904). On some nudibranchs from east Africa and Zanzibar, part V. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 2(83), 3-4.
  2. MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Marionia pellucida Eliot, 1904. Accessed on 2021-01-11.