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Elysia maoria

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Elysia maoria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Sacoglossa

clade Plakobranchacea
Superfamily:
Plakobranchoidea
Family:
Plakobranchidae
Genus:
Elysia
Species:
E. maoria
Binomial name
Elysia maoria
Powell, 1937

Elysia maoria is a small to medium-sized species of sea slug, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Plakobranchidae. This sea slug resembles a nudibranch, but it is not closely related to that order of gastropods, instead it is a sacoglossan. It occurs in New Zealand and Australia.[1]

References

  1. ^ Powell A. W. B. (1979) New Zealand Mollusca. William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand ISBN 0-00-216906-1

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