Polycera maddoxi

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Polycera maddoxi
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Doridina
Superfamily: Polyceroidea
Family: Polyceridae
Genus: Polycera
Species:
P. maddoxi
Binomial name
Polycera maddoxi
M. C. Miller, 2005 [1]

Polycera maddoxi 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 two specimens collected in 1997 on a jetty piling at Port Taranaki, New Zealand. A specimen was photographed in 1988 at Hapuka Rock, Sugar Loaf Islands by David Maddox, who also collected the type specimen. It has also been reported from the Poor Knights Islands. [3]

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References

  1. Miller, M. C. (2005). A new species of the dorid nudibranch genus Polycera Cuvier, 1817 (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia) from New Zealand. Vita Malacologia. 3 : 51-54.
  2. MolluscaBase (2018). Polycera maddoxi M. C. Miller, 2005. Accessed on 2018-09-12.
  3. Skipworth, I., 2015. Polycera maddoxi New Zealand Nudibranchs. Accessed 2018-09-12.