Dermatobranchus arminus is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Arminidae.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Suborder: | Cladobranchia |
| Family: | Arminidae |
| Genus: | Dermatobranchus |
| Species: | D. arminus
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| Dermatobranchus arminus | |
Description
editThie size of this marine species attains 20 mm. [3]
This species is small-bodied, with opaque white ridges along the body marked by dark brown blotches. The body is pale with faint brown saddle-like markings. The rhinophores (chemosensory tentacles) are small, oval, and have longitudinal ridges. [3]
Color: Pale-bodied, indistinctly brown saddled nudibranch with raised opaque white longitudinal ridges having dark blotches along them. [3]
Distribution
editThis species was described from Bakoven on the Atlantic Coast of Western Cape Province, South Africa, usually deeper than 20 m. [3]
References
edit- ^ Gosliner T.M. & Fahey S.J. (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: 245–356.
- ^ Dermatobranchus arminus Gosliner & Fahey, 2011. 30 October 2024. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- ^ a b c d Herbert, D.G., Jones, G.J. & Atkinson, L.J. (2018). Phylum Mollusca. In: Atkinson, L.J. and Sink, K.J. (eds) Field Guide to the Offshore Marine Invertebrates of South Africa. Pretoria: Malachite Marketing and Media. p. 289. doi:10.15493/SAEON.PUB.10000001. ISBN 978-1-86868-098-6. Retrieved 26 October 2024.
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- Gosliner, T. (2023). Southern African Sea Slugs. Cape Town: Southern Underwater Research Group Press.