Amphorina pallida is a species of sea slug or nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Eubranchidae.[2] Several species of Eubranchus were transferred to Amphorina in 2020.[3]
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| Plate from Alder & Hancock (1845-1855) | |
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura clade Aeolidida |
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| Species: | A. pallidus
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| Amphorina pallidus | |
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Distribution
editThis species was described from Cullercoats, England.[1] It has been reported from Eastport, Maine; Iceland, the Barents Sea and the Atlantic coast of Europe from Norway south to the Mediterranean Sea.[4][5]
References
edit- ^ a b Alder J. & Hancock A. (1842). Descriptions of several new species of nudibranchous mollusca found on the coast of Northumberland. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9: 31-36.
- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Amphorina pallida (Alder & Hancock, 1842). Accessed on 2020-04-04.
- ^ Korshunova, T.; Malmberg, K.; Prkić, J.; Petani, A.; Fletcher, K.; Lundin, K.; Martynov, A. (2020). Fine-scale species delimitation: speciation in process and periodic patterns in nudibranch diversity. ZooKeys. 917: 15-50.
- ^ Rudman, W.B., 1999 (August 29) Eubranchus pallidus (Alder & Hancock, 1842). [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
- ^ Picton, B.E. & Morrow, C.C. (2015). Eubranchus pallidus (Alder & Hancock, 1842). [In] Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland. Accessed on 2016-01-03