Corambe pacifica
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Corambe pacifica | |
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Corambe pacifica from Santa Cruz, California with egg spirals on bryozoan on giant kelp | |
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(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
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Species: | C. pacifica MacFarland & O'Donoghue, 1929
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Corambe pacifica | |
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Quasicorambe pacifica (MacFarland & O'Donoghue, 1929) |
Corambe pacifica common name Pacific corambe is a species of sea slug, an Eastern Pacific Ocean nudibranch, a marine, opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Corambidae.[1]
This species feeds on bryozoans.
Distribution
Corambe pacifica are found on the west coast of North America.
References
- ^ Bouchet, P. (2015). Corambe pacifica. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=535677 on 2016-05-21
- Behrens, D.W. (1980). Pacific Coast Nudibranchs: A guide to the Opisthobranchs of the Northeastern Pacific. Sea challengers, Los Osos, California.
- MacFarland, F.M.& O'Donoghue, C.H. (1929). A new species of Corambe from the Pacific coast of North America. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, fourth series, 18(1): 1-27.
- Yoshioka, P.M. (1986). Life history patterns of the dorid nudibranchs Doridella steinbergaeand Corambe pacifica. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 31: 179-184.
- Yoshioka, P.M. (1986). Competitive coexistence of the dorid nudibranchs Doridella steinbergae and Corambe pacifica. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 33: 81-88.
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