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Species of gastropod

Plocamopherus maculatus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Superfamily: Polyceroidea
Family: Polyceridae
Genus: Plocamopherus
Species: P. maculatus
Binomial name
Plocamopherus maculatus
(Pease, 1860)

Plocamopherus maculatus is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusk in the family Polyceridae.

Distribution

This species was described from Hawaii where it is a moderately common nocturnal animal. It has also been reported from the Solomon Islands, the Marshall Islands and South Africa.

References

  1. ^ Pease, W.H., 1860. Descriptions of new species of mollusca from the Sandwich Islands. Part 1. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 28: 18-36.
  2. Sea slugs of Hawaii, Cory Pittman and Pauline Fiene http://seaslugsofhawaii.com/species/Plocamopherus-maculatus-a.html
  3. ^ Rudman, W.B., 2003 (November 12) Plocamopherus maculatus (Pease, 1860). Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet/plocmacu
  4. Gosliner, Terrence. Nudibranchs of southern Africa: A guide to Opisthobranch molluscs of southern Africa Sea Challengers, Monterey, 1987. ISBN 0-930118-13-8

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Taxon identifiers
Plocamopherus maculatus


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