Taringa aivica

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Taringa aivica
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Doridina
Superfamily: Doridoidea
Family: Discodorididae
Genus: Taringa
Species:
T. aivica
Binomial name
Taringa aivica
Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1967 [1]
Synonyms [2]
  • Taringa aivica timiaMarcus & Marcus, 1967

Taringa aivica is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Discodorididae. [3]

Distribution

This species was described from Fort Kobbe Beach, Panama, 8°53′40″N79°34′52″W / 8.8945°N 79.5811°W / 8.8945; -79.5811 , Pacific Ocean. It has been reported from Bahía de Banderas, Mexico and from the Palos Verdes peninsula in Los Angeles County to Bahía Tortugas, Baja California and the Sonoran coast of the Gulf of California. [4]

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References

  1. Marcus E. V. & Marcus E. R. (1967). "American opisthobranch mollusks". Studies in Tropical Oceanography . Miami 6: 1-256, page 89.
  2. Camacho-García Y. & Valdés A. (2003). "Caryophyllidia-bearing dorid nudibranchs (Mollusca, Nudibranchia, Doridacea) from Costa Rica". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 54: 65-79. PDF.
  3. MolluscaBase (2018). Taringa aivica Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1967. Accessed on 2018-11-27.
  4. Behrens, D., 2002. Taringa aivica The Slug Site, M. Miller ed., accessed 2018-1127.