Vayssierea cinnabarea

Vayssierea cinnabarea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia informal group Opisthobranchia clade Nudipleura clade Nudibranchia
Family:	Okadaiidae
Genus:	Vayssierea Baba, 1930
Species:	V. cinnabarea
Binomial name
*Vayssierea cinnabarea* (Ralph, 1944)^[1]
Synonyms
Okadaia cinnabarea (Ralph, 1944) Pellibranchus cinnabareus Ralph, 1944

Vayssierea cinnabarea is a species of minute sea slug, a dorid nudibranch in the gastropod family Okadaiidae.^[2]

This species feeds on Spirorbis tube worms.

Distribution

This species occurs in New Zealand.

References

↑ Ralph P. M. (June) 1944. Pellibranchus cinnabareus, a New Genus and Species of Non-Pelagic Nudibranch Mollusc of the Family Phyllirhoidae. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Volume 74, 1944-45, 24-31.
↑ Rosenberg, G. (2012). Vayssierea cinnabarea. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=599228 on 2012-06-03

Spencer H.G., Willan R.C., Marshall B.A. & Murray T.J. (2011) Checklist of the Recent Mollusca Recorded from the New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone

Further reading

Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
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