Polycera fujitai

Polycera fujitai
The nudibranch Polycera fujitai, Mirs Bay, Hong Kong.
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: Polycera
Species: P. fujitai
Binomial name
Polycera fujitai
Baba, 1937 [1]
Synonyms

Palio fujitai (Baba, 1937)

Polycera fujitai is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Polyceridae.[2]

Distribution

This species was described from Japan. It also occurs in Hong Kong, in the South China Sea and has been reported from New Zealand.[3][4]

References

  1. ↑ Baba, K. 1937. Opisthobranchia of Japan (II). Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Kyushu Imperial University 5(7):289-344, pls. 1-2.
  2. ↑ Rosenberg, G.; Bouchet, P. (2014). Polycera fujitai Baba, 1937. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-01-17
  3. ↑ Miller, M.C. (2001) Descriptions of the Dorid nudibranchs Polycera hedgpethi Marcus, 1964 and P. fujitai Baba, 1937 in New Zealand (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia). Journal of Molluscan Studies, 67: 489-497.
  4. ↑ 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.
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