Atagema ornata
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| Species: | A. ornata
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| Atagema ornata (Ehrenberg, 1831)[1]
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Doris ornata Ehrenberg, 1831 | |
Atagema ornata is a species of sea slug or dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Discodorididae.[2]
Distribution
This species was described from the Red Sea. It is considered to be synonymous with Atagema intecta by some authors.[3]
Ecology
This dorid nudibranch feeds on sponges.
References
- ^ Ehrenberg, Christian Gottfried. 1828, 1831. Symbolae physicae seu icones et descriptiones animalium evertebratorum sepositis insectis quae ex itinere per Africam borealem et Asiam Occidentalem—novae aut illustratae redierunt. Decas 1 Mollusca.
- ^ Bouchet, P. (2015). Atagema ornata (Ehrenberg, 1831). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-10-26.
- ^ Valdés Á. & Gosliner T.M. 2001. Systematics and phylogeny of the caryophyllidia-bearing dorids (Mollusca, Nudibranchia), with the description of a new genus and four new species from Indo-Pacific deep waters. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 133(2): 103-198