Jorunna tomentosa is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Discodorididae.[2]
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| The nudibranch Jorunna tomentosa feeding on the sponge Haliclona cinerea, Rosehearty, Moray Firth, Scotland. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Family: | Discodorididae |
| Genus: | Jorunna |
| Species: | J. tomentosa
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| Jorunna tomentosa | |
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Distribution
editThis species occurs in European waters from Norway to Portugal and in the Mediterranean Sea. It has also been reported from South Africa and Tristan da Cunha.[3][4]
Biology
editJorunna tomentosa feeds on the sponges Haliclona cinerea and Haliclona oculata.[5]
References
edit- ^ Cuvier, G. 1804. Memoire sur le genre Doris. Annales de Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 4: 447–473.
- ^ a b Gofas, S. (2011). Jorunna tomentosa (Cuvier, 1804). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2011-08-23
- ^ Rudman, W.B., 1999 (August 8) Jorunna tomentosa (Cuvier, 1804). [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
- ^ Camacho-Garcia Y.E. & Gosliner T.M. (2008) Systematic revision of Jorunna Bergh, 1876 (Nudibranchia: Discodorididae) with a morphological phylogenetic analysis. Journal of Molluscan Studies 74:143-181
- ^ Picton, B. E. & Morrow, C. C., 2015. Jorunna tomentosa. Encyclopedia of marine life.
- Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp.
- Dayrat B. 2010. A monographic revision of discodorid sea slugs (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia, Nudibranchia, Doridina). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Series 4, vol. 61, suppl. I, 1-403, 382 figs.
External links
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