Atagema ornata
| Atagema ornata | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Nudipleura clade Nudibranchia |
| Superfamily: | Doridoidea |
| Family: | Discodorididae |
| Genus: | Atagema |
| Species: | A. ornata |
| Binomial name | |
| Atagema ornata (Ehrenberg, 1831)[1] | |
| Synonyms | |
|
Doris ornata Ehrenberg, 1831 | |
Atagema ornata is a species of sea slug or dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Discodorididae.[2]
Distribution
This species was described from the Red Sea. It is considered to be synonymous with Atagema intecta by some authors.[3]
Ecology
This dorid nudibranch feeds on sponges.
References
- ↑ Ehrenberg, Christian Gottfried. 1828, 1831. Symbolae physicae seu icones et descriptiones animalium evertebratorum sepositis insectis quae ex itinere per Africam borealem et Asiam Occidentalem—novae aut illustratae redierunt. Decas 1 Mollusca.
- ↑ Bouchet, P. (2015). Atagema ornata (Ehrenberg, 1831). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-10-26.
- ↑ Valdés Á. & Gosliner T.M. 2001. Systematics and phylogeny of the caryophyllidia-bearing dorids (Mollusca, Nudibranchia), with the description of a new genus and four new species from Indo-Pacific deep waters. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 133(2): 103-198
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