Pseudovermis hancocki

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Pseudovermis hancocki
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda Subclass: Orthogastropoda Superorder: Heterobranchia Order: Opisthobranchia Suborder: Nudibranchia Superfamily: Aeolidioidea Family: Pseudovermidae Genus: Pseudovermis Periaslavzeff, 1891 Species: P. hancocki
Binomial name
Pseudovermis hancocki Challis, 1969

Pseudovermis hancocki is species of minute sea slug, specifically an aolid nudibranch, a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Pseudovermidae.

These extremely small sea slugs are meiofauna; they live among sand grains.

Contents 1 Distribution 2 Habitat 3 Description 4 References

[edit] Distribution

This species is found on the north east coast of the North Island of New Zealand.

[edit] Habitat

The type specimen was found in sand.

[edit] Description

This minute aeolid is colourless, and has narrow elongated cerata, five on the left side of the body and four on the right.

Length is up to only 4 mm.

[edit] References

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