Ancula gibbosa

Ancula gibbosa
Chromolithograph of Ancula gibbosa from Kunstformen der Natur (1904)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Euctenidiacea
clade Doridacea

Superfamily: Onchidoridoidea
Family: Goniodorididae
Genus: Ancula
Species: A. gibbosa
Binomial name
Ancula gibbosa
(Risso, 1818)[1]
Synonyms[3]
  • Tritonia gibbosa Risso, 1818
  • Polycera cristata Alder, 1841[2]
  • Miranda cristata (Alder, 1841)
  • Ancula sulphurea Stimpson, 1853
  • Ancula pacifica MacFarland, 1905

Ancula gibbosa, common name Atlantic ancula, is a species of dorid nudibranch. It is a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Goniodorididae.

References

  1. ^ (French) Risso A. (1818). "Memoire sur quelques Gasteropodes nouveaux, Nudibranches et Tectibranches observes dans la Mer de Nice". Journal de Physique, de Chimie, d'Histoire Naturelle et des Arts 87: 368-377. Tritonia gibbosa is on the page 371.
  2. ^ Alder J. (1841). "Observations on the genus Polycera of Cuvier, with descriptions of two new British species". Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6: 337–342. 
  3. ^ "Ancula gibbosa (Risso, 1818)". Malacolog Version 4.1.1. A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca. Accessed 17 February 2010.

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