Dendronotus lacteus is a species of sea slug, a dendronotid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dendronotidae.[2]
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| The nudibranch Dendronotus lacteus, Eilean Dubh Beag, Firth of Lorne, Scotland. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Suborder: | Cladobranchia |
| Family: | Dendronotidae |
| Genus: | Dendronotus |
| Species: | D. lacteus
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| Dendronotus lacteus (W. Thompson, 1840)[1]
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Distribution
editThis species was described from a specimen collected at the entrance to Strangford Lough, Northern Ireland, Irish Sea. It was long considered to be a synonym of Dendronotus frondosus but separated by Thollesson in 2000 using the technique of allozyme electrophoresis.[3] This was confirmed with DNA sequencing in 2015.[4] The species is known from the Irish Sea north to Spitsbergen, Franz Josef Land, and the Barents Sea.[4]
References
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- ^ Thompson, William. (1840). Contributions towards a knowledge of the Mollusca Nudibranchia and Mollusca Tunicata of Ireland, with descriptions of some apparently new species of Invertebrata. Annals & Magazine of Natural History 5(29):84-102, pl. 2.
- ^ Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2015). Dendronotus lacteus. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-02-06.
- ^ Thollesson, Mikael. 1998. Discrimination of two Dendronotus species by allozyme electrophoresis and the reinstatement of Dendronotus lacteus (Thompson, 1840) (Nudibranchia, Dendronotoidea). Zoologica Scripta 27(3):189-195.
- ^ a b Ekimova, I.; Korshunova, T.; Schepetov, D.; Neretina, T.; Sanamyan, N.; Martynov, A. (2015). Integrative systematics of northern and Arctic nudibranchs of the genus Dendronotus (Mollusca, Gastropoda), with descriptions of three new species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 173(4): 841-886.