Pteraeolidia

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Pteraeolidia
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Pteraeolidia ianthina
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Cladobranchia
Family: Facelinidae
Genus: Pteraeolidia
Bergh, 1875 [1] [2]
Type species
Pteraeolidia semperi
(Bergh, 1870)

Pteraeolidia is a genus of sea slugs, aeolid nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Facelinidae. [3]

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Species

Species within the genus Pteraeolidia include:

A recent study suggests that there are many species of Pteraeolidia in the Indo-Pacific region. [4]

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References

  1. Bergh R. (1875). Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien25: Abh., 652.
  2. Bergh, R. 1875. Neue Nacktschnecken der Südsee, malacologische Untersuchungen. Journal des Museum Godeffroy, 8: 185-232, pls 7-11.
  3. Bouchet, P. (2015). Pteraeolidia. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-10-07
  4. Wilson N.G. & Burghardt I. (2015). Here be dragons – phylogeography of Pteraeolidia ianthina (Angas, 1864) reveals multiple species of photosynthetic nudibranchs (Aeolidina: Nudibranchia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 175(1): 119-133.

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