Onchidoris maugeansis

Onchidoris maugeansis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Euctenidiacea
clade Doridacea

Superfamily: Onchidoridoidea
Family: Onchidorididae
Genus: Onchidoris
Species: O. maugeansis
Binomial name
Onchidoris maugeansis
(Burn, 1958)[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Lamellidoris maugeansis Burn, 1958

Onchidoris maugeansis is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Onchidorididae.[2]

Distribution

This species was described from Australia. It is found in Victoria and Tasmania.[3]

Diet

Onchidoris maugeansis feeds on the encrusting bryozoan, Beania magellanica.

References

  1. Burn, R. F. (1958). Further Victorian Opisthobranchia. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 1(2):20-36, pls. 6-7.
  2. 1 2 Bouchet, P. (2015). Onchidoris maugeansis. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-01-21.
  3. Burn, R. & Wilson, R., 2011, Nudibranch, Onchidoris maugeansis, in Taxonomic Toolkit for marine life of Port Phillip Bay, Museum Victoria, accessed 22 Jan 2016.
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