Tambja caeruleocirrus

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Tambja caeruleocirrus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Doridina
Superfamily: Polyceroidea
Family: Polyceridae
Genus: Tambja
Species:
T. caeruleocirrus
Binomial name
Tambja caeruleocirrus
Willan & Y.-W. Chang, 2017 [1]

Tambja caeruleocirrus is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Polyceridae. [2]

Distribution

This species was originally described from the Coral Sea, Australia.

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References

  1. Willan R.C. & Chang Y.-W. [Yen-Wei]. (2017). Description of three new species of Tambja (Gastropoda, Nudibranchia, Polyceridae) from the western Pacific Ocean reveals morphological characters with taxonomic and phylogenetic significance for traditional Polyceridae and related 'phaneorobranch' nudibranchs. Basteria. 81(1-3): 1-23.
  2. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Tambja caeruleocirrus Willan & Y.-W. Chang, 2017. Accessed on 2021-02-03.