Doriprismatica kulonba is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chromodorididae.[2] This species was found to belong in a clade with Doriprismatica atromarginata in a molecular phylogeny study.[3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Family: | Chromodorididae |
| Genus: | Doriprismatica |
| Species: | D. kulonba
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| Binomial name | |
| Doriprismatica kulonba (Burn, 1966)[1]
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Distribution
editThis species is known only from southeastern Australian, Victoria and Northern Tasmania.[4][5][6]
Description
editDoriprismatica kulonba has a wide mantle overlap and very convoluted mantle margin. It is entirely white in colour apart from a thin band of milky yellow at the edge of the mantle and foot.[7][8][9][10]
Ecology
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References
edit- ^ Burn, R., (1966). On three new Chromodoridinae from Australia (Opisthobranchia: Nudibranchia). The Veliger, 8: 191-197.
- ^ a b MolluscaBase (2018). Doriprismatica kulonba (Burn, 1966). Accessed on 2019-01-31.
- ^ Johnson R.F. & Gosliner T.M. (2012) Traditional taxonomic groupings mask evolutionary history: A molecular phylogeny and new classification of the chromodorid nudibranchs. PLoS ONE 7(4): e33479.
- ^ Rudman, W.B., 2006 (July 11) Digidentis kulonba (Burn, 1966). [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
- ^ Rudman W.B. (1984) The Chromodorididae (Opisthobranchia: Mollusca) of the Indo-West Pacific: a review of the genera. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 81 (2/3): 115-273. page(s): 165
- ^ Burn R. (2006) A checklist and bibliography of the Opisthobranchia (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Victoria and the Bass Strait area, south-eastern Australia. Museum Victoria Science Reports 10:1–42
- ^ Rudman W.B. (1985) The Chromodorididae (Opisthobranchia: Mollusca) of the Indo-West Pacific: Chromodoris aureomarginata, C. verrieri and C. fidelis colour groups. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 83: 241-299. page(s): 256
- ^ Rudman, W.B. (1986). The Chromodorididae (Opisthobranchia: Mollusca) of the Indo-West Pacific: Noumea purpurea and Chromodoris decora colour groups. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 86 (4): 309-353. page(s): 340
- ^ Rudman W.B. (1990) The Chromodorididae (Opisthobranchia: Mollusca) of the Indo-West Pacific: further species of Glossodoris, Thorunna and the Chromodoris aureomarginata colour group. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 100: 263-326 page(s): 264
- ^ Debelius, H. & Kuiter, R.H. (2007) Nudibranchs of the world. ConchBooks, Frankfurt, 360 pp. ISBN 978-3-939767-06-0 page(s): 206