Thuridilla decorata

Thuridilla decorata
A live individual of Thuridilla decorata in situ, head end towards the left
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

informal group Opisthobranchia
clade Sacoglossa
clade Plakobranchacea

Superfamily: Plakobranchoidea
Family: Plakobranchidae
Genus: Thuridilla
Species: T. decorata
Binomial name
Thuridilla decorata
(Heller & Thompson, 1983)[1]

Thuridilla decorata is a species of sacoglossan sea slug, a shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Plakobranchidae.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea.

References

  1. Heller J. & Thompson T. E. (1983). "Opisthobranch molluscs of the Sudanese Red Sea". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 78(4): 317-348.
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