Polycera maculata

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Polycera maculata
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Doridina
Superfamily: Polyceroidea
Family: Polyceridae
Genus: Polycera
Species:
P. maculata
Binomial name
Polycera maculata
Pruvot-Fol, 1951 [1]
Synonyms
  • Palio maculata(Pruvot-Fol, 1951)

Polycera maculata is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Polyceridae. [2]

Distribution

This species was described from a single specimen dredged offshore of Marseille, Mediterranean Sea.

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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. MolluscaBase (2018). Polycera maculata Pruvot-Fol, 1951. Accessed on 2018-09-12.