Aegires albopunctatus
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| Aegires albopunctatus from Fitzgerald Marine Reserve, California | |
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
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| Species: | A. albopunctatus
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| Aegires albopunctatus MacFarland, 1905
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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.[1]
This species feeds on bryozoans.
Distribution
This marine species occurs off British Columbia, Canada to Baja California, Mexico.[2][3]
References
- ^ Bouchet, P. (2015). Aegires albopunctatus MacFarland, 1905. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=531071 on 2016-05-21
- ^ "Salt-and-pepper Doris (Aegires albopunctatus)". iNaturalist.org. Retrieved 2016-05-20.
- ^ Rudman, W.B. (2005 July 6). "Aegires albopunctatus Macfarland, 1905". Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
Further reading
- 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
- 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.
- MacFarland, F.M. (1966) Studies of Opisthobranchiate Molllusks of the Pacific Coast of North America. Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences, 6:1–546.
- 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. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, (4) 55(34): 613–689