Armina californica

Armina californica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia; clade Euthyneura; clade Nudipleura ; clade Nudibranchia ; clade Dexiarchia ; clade Cladobranchia; clade Euarminida
Superfamily:	Arminoidea
Family:	Arminidae
Genus:	Armina
Species:	A. californica
Binomial name
	Armina californica; (J. G. Cooper, 1863)
Synonyms
	Armina columbiana O'Donoghue, 1924; Armina digueti Pruvot-Fol, 1956; Armina vancouverensis (Bergh, 1876); Pleurophyllidia californica Cooper, 1863 (basionym);

Armina californica is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Arminidae.^[1]

This species occurs in the Eastern Pacific Ocean from Vancouver Island to Panama.

References

^ ^a ^b Rosenberg, G.; Bouchet, P. (2011). Armina californica (J. G. Cooper, 1863). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=558913 on 2012-04-15

SeaSlug info at: [1]
Slugsite info at: [2]
Baez D.P., Ardila N., Valdés A. & Acero A. (2011) Taxonomy and phylogeny of Armina (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia: Arminidae) from the Atlantic and eastern Pacific. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 91(5): 1107-1121.
Gosliner T.M. & Fahey S.J. (2011) Previously undocumented diversity and abundance of cryptic species: a phylogenetic analysis of Indo-Pacific Arminidae Rafinesque, 1814 (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) with descriptions of 20 new species of Dermatobranchus. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 161: 245–356. p. 2582

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