Onchimira cavifera

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Onchimira cavifera
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Family: Onchidorididae
Genus: Onchimira
Species:
O. cavifera
Binomial name
Onchimira cavifera
Martynov, Korshunova, Sanamyan & Sanamyan, 2009 [1]

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

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Distribution

This species was described from Starichkov Island, near the Kamchatka peninsula, northwest Pacific Ocean. [1]

Description

The size of the body attains 26 mm.

References

  1. 1 2 Martynov A., Korshunova T., Sanamyan N. & Sanamyan K. 2009. Description of the first cryptobranch onchidoridid Onchimira cavifera gen. et sp. nov., and of three new species of the genera Adalaria Bergh, 1879 and Onchidoris Blainville, 1816 (Nudibranchia: Onchidorididae) from Kamchatka waters. Zootaxa, 2159: 1-43
  2. ↑ Gofas, S.; Bouchet, P. (2015). Onchimira cavifera. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-01-25.
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