Sclerodoris coriacea

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Sclerodoris coriacea
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Sclerodoris coriacea
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Doridina
Superfamily: Doridoidea
Family: Discodorididae
Genus: Sclerodoris
Species:
S. coriacea
Binomial name
Sclerodoris coriacea
Eliot, 1904 [1]

Sclerodoris coriacea is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Discodorididae. [2]

Distribution

This species was described from a cave near Chuaka, on the east coast of Zanzibar, East Africa.

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References

  1. ↑ Eliot, C. N. E. (1904). On some nudibranchs from East Africa and Zanzibar part. III. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1903:2:354-385, page 383, plate XXXIV, fig. 3. [Dated December 1st 1903 but not published until April 1904].
  2. ↑ Bouchet, P. (2016). Sclerodoris coriacea. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-05-12.