Aegires albopunctatus

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Aegires albopunctatus
Aegires albopunctatus from Fitzgerald Marine Reserve, California.jpg
Aegires albopunctatus from Fitzgerald Marine Reserve, California
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A. albopunctatus
Binomial name
Aegires albopunctatus

Aegires albopunctatus, common name salt-and-pepper doris, is a species of sea slug, an Eastern Pacific Ocean nudibranch, a marine, opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Aegiridae.[2]

Distribution[edit]

This marine species occurs off British Columbia, Canada to Baja California, Mexico.[3][4][5][6]

References[edit]

  1. ^ MacFarland, F. M. (1905). A preliminary account of the Dorididae of the Monterey Bay, California. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 18: 35-54
  2. ^ Bouchet, P. (2015). Aegires albopunctatus MacFarland, 1905. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-05-21
  3. ^ MacFarland, F.M. (1906) Opisthobranchiate Mollusca from Monterey Bay, California, and vicinity. Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Fisheries, 25: 109–151, pls. 18–31.
  4. ^ MacFarland, F.M. (1966) Studies of Opisthobranchiate Mollusks of the Pacific Coast of North America. Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences, 6:1–546.
  5. ^ Rudman, W.B. (2005 July 6). "Aegires albopunctatus Macfarland, 1905". Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
  6. ^ Fahey S.J. & Gosliner T.M. 2004. A phylogenetic analysis of the Aegiridae Fischer, 1883 (Mollusca, Nudibranchia, Phanerobranchia) with descriptions of eight new species and a reassessment of Phanerobranch relationships. Archived 2007-02-07 at the Wayback Machine Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, (4) 55(34): 613–689.