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Ceratosoma palliolatum Rudman, 1988 
AphiaID: 560051

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Heterobranchia (Subclass) > Opisthobranchia (Infraclass) > Nudibranchia (Order) > Euctenidiacea (Suborder) > Doridacea (Infraorder) > Doridoidea (Superfamily) > Chromodorididae (Family) > Ceratosoma (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Ceratosoma Adams & Reeve, 1850
Sources  original description: Rudman W.B. (1988). The Chromodorididae (Ophistobranchia: Mollusca) of the Indo-West Pacific: the genus Ceratosoma J.E. Gray. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 93 (1): 133-185.
page(s): 162 [details]

basis of record: 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): 274 [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): 97 [details]

status 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]

Environment marine, fresh, terrestrial
Specimen  Unknown type: AM C148238, locality Darwin (Reef off Gunn Pt., Darwin, Australia) [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To Sea Slug Forum (via archive.org)  Note: Upper: same photo as in original description.
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:560051
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2011-02-21 08:54:00Z  created  Caballer, Manuel
  
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  Citation: Caballer, M. (2013). Ceratosoma palliolatum Rudman, 1988. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=560051 on 2013-05-20
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