Okenia miramarae

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Okenia miramarae
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Superfamily: Onchidoridoidea
Family: Goniodorididae
Genus: Okenia
Species:
O. miramarae
Binomial name
Okenia miramarae
Ortea & Espinosa, 2000 [1]

Okenia miramarae is a species of sea slug, specifically a dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Goniodorididae. [2]

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Distribution

This species was described from Cuba, Caribbean Sea. It has been reported and illustrated with photographs from Gran Canaria, Canary Islands. [3] [4]

Description

The maximum recorded body length is 5 mm. [5]

Habitat

Minimum recorded depth is 20 m. [5] Maximum recorded depth is 20 m. [5]

References

  1. ↑ Ortea, J. A., & J. Espinosa. 2000. Nueva especie del género Okenia Menke, 1830 (Mollusca:Nudibranchia) de Cuba. Avicennia, Revista de Oceanología, Ecología y Biodiversidad Tropical 12-13:84-86.
  2. ↑ Rosenberg, G. (2015). Okenia miramarae Ortea & Espinosa, 2000. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-10-20
  3. ↑ Moro, L., Ortea, J.A., & Bacallado, J.J., (2016). Nuevas citas y nuevos datos anatómicos de las babosas marinas (Mollusca: Heterobranchia) de las islas Canarias y su entorno. Revista de la Academia Canaria de Ciencias, Vol. XXVIII, 9-52
  4. ↑ Pontes, Miquel, Manuel Ballesteros, Enric Madrenas et al. (2012-2016) Okenia miramarae in OPK-Opistobranquis, Published: 19/11/2016, Accessed: 20/11/2016.
  5. 1 2 3 Welch J. J. (2010). "The “Island Rule” and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". PLoS ONE 5(1): e8776. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008776.
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