Rostanga setidens

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Rostanga setidens
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Doridina
Superfamily: Doridoidea
Family: Discodorididae
Genus: Rostanga
Species:
R. setidens
Binomial name
Rostanga setidens
(Odhner, 1939) [1]

Rostanga setidens is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch. It is a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Discodorididae .

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Distribution

This species was described from Norway.

Description

Rostanga setidens is white in colour, a character shared only with Rostanga phepha and Rostanga ankyra . [2]

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References

  1. Odhner N. (1939). Opisthobranchiate Mollusca from the western and northern coast of Norway. Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers-Selskabs Skrifter 1: p. 31-33, figs 15-17
  2. Valdés Á. 2001. Deep-sea cryptobranch dorid nudibranchs (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia) from the tropical West Pacific, with descriptions of two new genera and eighteen new species. Malacologia 43 (1-2) : 237-311