Rostanga setidens
Appearance
Rostanga setidens | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Nudibranchia |
Family: | Discodorididae |
Genus: | Rostanga |
Species: | R. setidens
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Binomial name | |
Rostanga setidens (Odhner, 1939)[1]
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Rostanga setidens is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch. It is a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Discodorididae.
Distribution
This species was described from Norway.
Description
Rostanga setidens is white in colour, a character shared only with Rostanga phepha and Rostanga ankyra.[2]
References
- ^ Odhner N. (1939). Opisthobranchiate Mollusca from the western and northern coast of Norway. Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers-Selskabs Skrifter 1: p. 31-33, figs 15-17
- ^ Valdés Á. 2001. Deep-sea cryptobranch dorid nudibranchs (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia) from the tropical West Pacific, with descriptions of two new genera and eighteen new species. Malacologia 43 (1-2) : 237-311