Tambja affinis
| Tambja affinis | |
|---|---|
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| A live individual of Tambja affinis from Diani, Kenya | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Polyceroidea |
| Family: | Polyceridae |
| Subfamily: | Nembrothinae |
| Genus: | Tambja |
| Species: | T. affinis |
| Binomial name | |
| Tambja affinis Eliot, 1904 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Nembrotha affinis | |
Tambja affinis is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Polyceridae.[1][2]
Distribution
This species was originally described from a specimen found at Zanzibar, East Africa. [3] It has been reported from various sites in the Indian Ocean, as far east as Ningaloo Reef, western Australia[4]
Description
Tambja affinis has bright yellow stripes on a blue background.
References
- ↑ Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (Ed.); Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdes A. & Warén A. 2005. Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology, 47(1-2). ConchBooks: Hackenheim, Germany. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997. 397 pp. http://www.vliz.be/Vmdcdata/imis2/ref.php?refid=78278
- ↑ WoRMS: Tambja affinis accessed : 28 December 2012
- ↑ Eliot, C. (1904) On some Nudibranchs from East Africa and Zanzibar. Part IV. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 74: 380–406
- ↑ http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/tambaffi
- Pola M., Cervera J.L. & Gosliner T.M. (2006) Taxonomic revision and phylogenetic analysis of the genus Tambja Burn, 1962 (Mollusca, Nudibranchia, Polyceridae). Zoologica Scripta 35(5):491-530.
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