Onchidoris tenella

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Onchidoris tenella
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O. tenella
Binomial name
Onchidoris tenella
(Gould, 1870) [1]

Onchidoris tenella 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 Beverly, Massachusetts on the Atlantic Ocean coast of the United States.

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References

  1. Gould, A. A. (1870). Report on the Invertebrata of Massachusetts, published agreeably to an order of the legislature. Second edition, comprising the Mollusca. Edited By W. G. Binney, v + 524 pp. pls. XVIXXVII.
  2. Rosenberg, G. (2015). Onchidoris tenella. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-01-21.