WoRMS taxon details
Chromodoris africana Eliot, 1904
AphiaID: 209584
AphiaID: 209584
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Heterobranchia (Subclass) > Opisthobranchia (Infraclass) > Nudibranchia (Order) > Euctenidiacea (Suborder) > Doridacea (Infraorder) > Doridoidea (Superfamily) > Chromodorididae (Family) > Chromodoris (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Chromodoris Alder & Hancock, 1855 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Chromodoris elisabethina var. africana Eliot, 1904 (original combination) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Rudman W.B. (1977) Chromodorid opisthobranch Mollusca from East Africa and the tropical West Pacific. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 61: 351-397. [details] additional source: Rudman W.B. (1982) The Chromodorididae (Opisthobranchia: Mollusca) of the Indo-West Pacific: Chromodoris quadricolor, C. lineolata and Hypselodoris nigrolineata colour groups. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 76: 183-241. page(s): 219 [details] additional source: Gosliner, T.M., Behrens, D.W. & Valdés, Á. (2008) Indo-Pacific Nudibranchs and seaslugs. A field guide to the world's most diverse fauna. Sea Challengers Natural History Books, Washington, 426 pp. page(s): 203 [details] additional source: Debelius, H. & Kuiter, R.H. (2007) Nudibranchs of the world. ConchBooks, Frankfurt, 360 pp. ISBN: 978-3-939767-06-0 page(s): 167 [details] additional source: Johnson R.F. & Gosliner T.M. (2012) Traditional taxonomic groupings mask evolutionary history: A molecular phylogeny and new classification of the chromodorid nudibranchs. PLoS ONE 7(4): e33479., available online at http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0033479 [details] | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra (not certain) [details] Red Sea [details] Tanzania [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 1 proteins) To Sea Slug Forum (via archive.org) Note: As described in Rudman (1982: 221, figure 21) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Up to 8 cm long. A striking black species with a broad, pale or orange border and white bands. Habitat: diverse, among shallow coral reefs. Distribution: W Indian Ocean and Red Sea (Richmond, 1997). [details] Type locality: Type locality: Tanzania (Richmond, 1997). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:209584 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Caballer, M. (2013). Chromodoris africana Eliot, 1904. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=209584 on 2013-05-25 | ||||||||||||||
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