Limacia clavigera grazing on Membranipora membranacea
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
Subclass:
Heterobranchia
Order:
Nudibranchia
Suborder:
Doridina
Superfamily:
Polyceroidea
Family:
Polyceridae
Genus:
Limacia
Species:
L. clavigera
Binomial name
Limacia clavigera
(O. F. Müller, 1776)[1]
Synonyms
Doris clavigera O. F. Müller, 1776 (original combination)
Euplocamus plumosus Thompson, 1840[2]
Tergipes pulcher Johnston, 1834
Limacia clavigera, sometimes known by the common name orange-clubbed sea slug, is a sea slug, a species of dorid nudibranch. It is a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Polyceridae.[3]
^Müller Otto Frederik. 1776. Zoologiae Danicae. Prodromus seu animalium Daniae et Norvegiae ingenarum characteres, nomina, et synonyma imprimis popularium, xxxii + 282 pp.
^Thompson W., 1840: Contributions towards a knowledge of the Mollusca Nudibranchia and Mollusca Tunicata of Ireland, with descriptions of some apparently new species of Invertebrata Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 (29): 84-102
^Rosenberg, G.; Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2015). Limacia clavigera (O. F. Müller, 1776). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140830 on 2015-12-23
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