Armina gilchristi is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Arminidae.[1]
Armina gilchristi | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Nudibranchia |
Suborder: | Cladobranchia |
Family: | Arminidae |
Genus: | Armina |
Species: | A. gilchristi
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Binomial name | |
Armina gilchristi White, 1955
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Description
editThis species has a dark, grey and black mantle with longitudinal white, granulose ridges.[2][3]
Distribution
editArmina gilchristi is endemic to the waters off Southern Africa.[2]
References
edit- ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Armina gilchristi White, 1955".
- ^ a b Gosliner, Terrence M.; Fahey, Shireen J. (1 February 2011). "Previously undocumented diversity and abundance of cryptic species: a phylogenetic analysis of Indo-Pacific Arminidae Rafinesque, 1814 (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) with descriptions of 20 new species of Dermatobranchus". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 161 (2): 245–356. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00649.x. PMC 3073124. PMID 21527987.
- ^ "Armina gilchristi White, 1955 - Arminidae » Nudi Pixel". Archived from the original on 8 August 2016. Retrieved 3 June 2016.