Okenia elegans

Okenia elegans
Drawing of Okenia elegans from Kunstformen der Natur (1904)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Euctenidiacea
clade Doridacea

Superfamily: Onchidoridoidea
Family: Goniodorididae
Genus: Okenia
Species: O. elegans
Binomial name
Okenia elegans
(Leuckart, 1828)[1]
Synonyms
  • Idalia elegans Leuckart, 1828
  • Euplocamus laciniosus Philippi, 1841
  • Idalia cirrigera Philippi, 1844
  • Idalia dautzenbergi Vayssière, 1919

Okenia elegans is a species of a sea slug, specifically a dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Goniodorididae.[2]

The nudibranch Okenia elegans, Rathlin Island, Co Antrim, Ireland.

Distribution

This species was described from near Cette on the Mediterranean Sea coast of France. It is reported from the adjacent Atlantic Ocean as far north as Scotland.[3][4]

References

  1. Leuckart F. S. (1828). Breves animalium quorundam maxima ex parte marinorum descriptiones. Heidelberg, Oßwald, 24 pp., Okenia elegans is on the page 15, one unnumbered plate, figures 2a-b.
  2. Gofas, S. (2015). Okenia elegans (Leuckart, 1828). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-02-21.
  3. Rudman, W.B., 2007 (July 26) Okenia elegans (Leuckart, 1828). [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
  4. Picton, B.E. & Morrow, C.C. (2015). Okenia elegans (Leuckart, 1828). [In] Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland. Accessed on 2016-2-21.
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