Greilada elegans

Greilada elegans
A live individual of Greilada elegans from Skomer Marine Nature Reserve, Wales, UK
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Euctenidiacea
clade Doridacea

Superfamily: Polyceroidea
Family: Polyceridae
Subfamily: Polycerinae
Genus: Greilada
Species: G. elegans
Binomial name
Greilada elegans
Bergh, 1894
Synonyms
  • Palio espagnoli Tejedo, 1994
  • Polycera elegans (Bergh, 1894) accepted, alternate representation
  • Polycera atlantica Pruvot-Fol, 1956
  • Polycera messinensis Odhner, 1941

Greilada elegans is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusk in the family Polyceridae. [1]

Distribution

This species occurs from southern England and Wales, south along coasts of the Atlantic to the Mediterranean Sea. It is found in the Canary Islands and as far east as Italy in the Mediterranean Sea.[2]

Description

This polycerid nudibranch is translucent orange with large iridescent blue spots. There is a tracery of blue-green iridescence along the pallial margin and on the midribs of the gills.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2014). Greilada elegans Bergh, 1894. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=153409 on 2015-01-17
  2. ↑ Rudman, W.B., 2004 (February 12) Greilada elegans Bergh, 1894. [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
  3. ↑ Picton, B.E. & Morrow, C.C., 2010. [In] Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland.