Nembrotha purpureolineata

Nembrotha purpureolineata
Nembrotha purpureolineata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Superfamily: Polyceroidea
Family: Polyceridae
Genus: Nembrotha
Species:
N. purpureolineata
Binomial name
Nembrotha purpureolineata
Synonyms
  • Kentiella rutilans Pruvot-Fol, 1931
  • Nembrotha rutilans (Pruvot-Fol, 1931)[2]

Nembrotha purpureolineata is a species of colourful sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Polyceridae. Nembrotha rutilans, classified as a separate species until 2008, has now been reclassified as Nembrotha purpureolineata.[3][4]

  1. ^ O'Donoghue, C. H. (1924) "Report on Opisthobranchiata from the Abrolhos Islands, Western Australia, with description of a new parasitic copepod. Journal of the Linnean Society, London 35: 521-579, Pls. 27-30.
  2. ^ Pruvot-Fol A. (1931) "Note 10. Nudibranches Australiens figures par Saville Kent". Bull. Mus. Nat. hist. nat. Paris 2(3): 754-755.
  3. ^ Pola M., Cervera J. L. & Gosliner T. M. (2008) "Revision of the Indo-Pacific genus Nembrotha (Nudibranchia: Dorididae: Polyceridae), with description of two new species". Scientia Marina 72(1): 145-183. doi:10.3989/scimar.2008.72n1145
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