Pleurobranchus crossei
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| Specimen of Pleurobranchus crossei (holotype at MNHN? Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Pleurobranchida |
| Family: | Pleurobranchidae |
| Genus: | Pleurobranchus |
| Species: | P. crossei
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| Binomial name | |
| Pleurobranchus crossei Vayssière, 1897
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Pleurobranchus (Pleurobranchus) crossei Vayssière, 1897 | |
Pleurobranchus crossei is a species of pleurobranchid sea slug, a type of marine gastropod mollusc[1]
Description
[edit]The size of the holotype is 22 mm.
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Distribution
[edit]This species is commonly found in the Caribbean Sea.
References
[edit]- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Pleurobranchus crossei Vayssière, 1897. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=758611 on 2022-01-28
- Ortea J., Espinosa J., Caballer M. & Buske Y. (2012) Initial inventory of the seaslugs (Opisthobranchia and Sacoglossa) from the expedition Karubentos, held in May 2012 in Guadeloupe (Lesser Antilles, Caribbean Sea). Revista de la Academia Canaria de Ciencias 24: 153–182.
- Ortea J., Moro L. & Caballer M. (2014). Contribución al estudio de la familia Pleurobranchidae Gray, 1827 (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia) en la Macaronesia y las islas Galápagos. Vieraea. 42: 117-148
- Ortea J. & Moro L. (2017). Nuevas citas y nuevos datos sobre las lesmas do mar (Mollusca: Heterobranchia) de las islas de Cabo Verde, con el restablecimiento de Tritonia pallescens (Eliot, 1906). Avicennia. 21: 1–10.
External links
[edit]- Vayssière, A. (1897 (1896). Description de deux espèces nouvelles de Pleurobranchidés. Journal de Conchyliologie. 44(3): 353-356
- Goodheart J., Camacho-García Y., Padula V., Schrödl M., Cervera J.L., Gosliner T.M. & Valdés Á. (2015). Systematics and biogeography of Pleurobranchus Cuvier, 1804, sea slugs (Heterobranchia: Nudipleura: Pleurobranchidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 174: 322-362
- Alvim J. & Pimenta A.D. (2016). Comparative morphology and redescription of Pleurobranchus species (Gastropoda, Pleurobranchoidea) from Brazil. Zoological Studies. 55: 15