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Rostanga setidens

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Species of gastropod

Rostanga setidens
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Family: Discodorididae
Genus: Rostanga
Species: R. setidens
Binomial name
Rostanga setidens
(Odhner, 1939)

Rostanga setidens is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch. It is a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Discodorididae.

Distribution

This species was described from Norway.

Description

Rostanga setidens is white in colour, a character shared only with Rostanga phepha and Rostanga ankyra.

References

  1. Odhner N. (1939). Opisthobranchiate Mollusca from the western and northern coast of Norway. Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers-Selskabs Skrifter 1: p. 31-33, figs 15-17
  2. Valdés Á. 2001. Deep-sea cryptobranch dorid nudibranchs (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia) from the tropical West Pacific, with descriptions of two new genera and eighteen new species. Malacologia 43 (1-2) : 237-311
Taxon identifiers
Rostanga setidens
Boreodoris setidens
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