Okenia miramarae
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
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| Species: | O. miramarae
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| Okenia miramarae Ortea & Espinosa, 2000[1]
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Okenia miramarae is a species of sea slug, specifically a dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Goniodorididae.[2]
Distribution
This species was described from Cuba, Caribbean Sea. It has been reported and illustrated with photographs from Gran Canaria, Canary Islands.[3][4]
Description
The maximum recorded body length is 5 mm.[5]
Habitat
Minimum recorded depth is 20 m.[5] Maximum recorded depth is 20 m.[5]
References
- ^ Ortea, J. A., & J. Espinosa. 2000. Nueva especie del género Okenia Menke, 1830 (Mollusca:Nudibranchia) de Cuba. Avicennia, Revista de Oceanología, Ecología y Biodiversidad Tropical 12-13:84-86.
- ^ Rosenberg, G. (2015). Okenia miramarae Ortea & Espinosa, 2000. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-10-20
- ^ Moro, L., Ortea, J.A., & Bacallado, J.J., (2016). Nuevas citas y nuevos datos anatómicos de las babosas marinas (Mollusca: Heterobranchia) de las islas Canarias y su entorno. Revista de la Academia Canaria de Ciencias, Vol. XXVIII, 9-52
- ^ Pontes, Miquel, Manuel Ballesteros, Enric Madrenas et al. (2012-2016) Okenia miramarae in OPK-Opistobranquis, Published: 19/11/2016, Accessed: 20/11/2016.
- ^ a b c Welch J. J. (2010). "The “Island Rule” and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". PLoS ONE 5(1): e8776. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008776.