Dermatobranchus caeruleomaculatus
| Dermatobranchus caeruleomaculatus | |
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| The nudibranch Dermatobranchus caeruleomaculatus, Bima, Sumbawa, Indonesia. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Suborder: | Cladobranchia |
| Family: | Arminidae |
| Genus: | Dermatobranchus |
| Species: | D. caeruleomaculatus
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| Binomial name | |
| Dermatobranchus caeruleomaculatus | |
Dermatobranchus caeruleomaculatus is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Arminidae.[2]
Distribution
[edit]This species occurs in the Indo-Pacific region. It was described from Waterfall Bay, south side Tioman Island, east Malaysia. It is also known from Indonesia, the Philippines and Papua New Guinea.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b 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.
- ^ Bouchet, P. (2015). Dermatobranchus caeruleomaculatus. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-09-30