Jorunna luisae

Jorunna luisae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Euctenidiacea
clade Doridacea

Superfamily: Doridoidea
Family: Discodorididae
Genus: Jorunna
Species: J. luisae
Binomial name
Jorunna luisae
Ev. Marcus, 1976[1]

Jorunna luisae is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Discodorididae.[2]

Distribution

This species was described from Mediterranean. It may be synonymous with Jorunna spazzola.[3]

Description

This species is similar in colouration to Jorunna tomentosa. [4]

References

  1. Marcus, Ev. 1976. On Kentrodoris and Jorunna (Gastropoda:Opistobranchia). Boletim de Zoologia, Universidad de Sao Paulo, 1:11–68.
  2. Bouchet, P. (2015). Jorunna luisae Ev. Marcus, 1976 In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-10-11
  3. Camacho-García Y.E. & Gosliner T.M. (2008). Systematic revision of Jorunna Bergh, 1876 (Nudibranchia: Discodorididae) with a morphological phylogenetic analysis. Journal of Molluscan Studies 74: 143-181
  4. Jorunna luisae. In: OPK - Opistobranquis, photo by Manuel Ballesteros.
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