Alderia willowi
| Alderia willowi | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia informal group Opisthobranchia clade Sacoglossa clade Plakobranchacea |
| Superfamily: | Limapontioidea |
| Family: | Limapontiidae |
| Genus: | Alderia |
| Species: | A. willowi |
| Binomial name | |
| Alderia willowi Krug, Patrick et al., 2007[1] | |
Alderia willowi is a species of sea slug, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Limapontiidae. It is a sacoglossan.[1]
This species is endemic to California.[2] It was previously thought to be Alderia modesta, but there turned out to be a cryptic species pair.
This species is poecilogonous, in other words it has variable larval development modes.[1]
The slug was discovered by a team led by Patrick Krug of California State University, Los Angeles.[1] The species is named after Krug's grandmother, and after the fictional character Willow Rosenberg from Buffy the Vampire Slayer television series.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Krug, P. J. et al. (2007). "A new poecilogonous species of sea slug (Opisthobranchia: Sacoglossa) from California: comparison with the planktotrophic congener Alderia modesta (Love'n, 1844)". Journal of Molluscan Studies 73: 29–38. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyl025. ISSN 1464-3766.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Variable Larval Development Modes (poecilogony)". Krug Lab - Larval Ecology and Evolution. Retrieved 2009-06-19.