Plocamopherus pilatectus

Plocamopherus pilatectus
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: Triophinae
Genus: Plocamopherus
Species: P. pilatectus
Binomial name
Plocamopherus pilatectus
Hamann & Farmer, 1988

Plocamopherus pilatectus is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusk in the family Polyceridae.

Distribution

This species was described from the Grenadines. It has subsequently been reported from nearby islands in the Caribbean Sea.

References

    Hamann, J. C. and W. M. Farmer. 1988. Two new species of Plocamopherus from the western warm water Atlantic. The Veliger, 31 68-74.

    External links

    http://www.malacolog.org/search.php?nameid=8706 Malacolog Version 4.1.1 A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca