Roboastra europaea

Roboastra europaea
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: Nembrothinae
Genus: Roboastra
Species: R. europaea
Binomial name
Roboastra europaea
García-Gómez, 1985

Roboastra europaea, is a species of sea slug, a polycerid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Polyceridae.

The size of this nudibranch's mitochondrial DNA is 14,472 bp,[1] which is one of the smallest among the Metazoa.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Grande, C.; Templado, J.; Cervera, J. L.; Zardoya, R. (2002). "The complete mitochondrial genome of the nudibranch Roboastra europaea (Mollusca: Gastropoda) supports the monophyly of opisthobranchs". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 19 (10): 1672–1685. PMID 12270894. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a003990.


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