| Diaphoreolis flavovulta | |
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| Pillar Point, Fitzgerald Marine Reserve, Moss Beach, CA | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Suborder: | Cladobranchia |
| Superfamily: | Fionoidea |
| Family: | Trinchesiidae |
| Genus: | Diaphoreolis |
| Species: | D. flavovulta |
| Binomial name | |
| Diaphoreolis flavovulta (MacFarland, 1966)[1] | |
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Diaphoreolis flavovulta, the yellow-head aeolid or yellow-head cuthona, is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Trinchesiidae.[2]
Distribution
This species was described from inner Monterey Bay, California, United States.[1] Reported along the East Pacific coastline of America from Kayostia Beach, Clallam County, Washington state to Hazard Canyon, San Luis Obispo County, California.[3]
References
- 1 2 MacFarland, F. M. (1966). Studies of opisthobranchiate mollusks of the Pacific coast of North America. Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences 6:1-546, pls. 1-72. pages 336-337.
- ↑ Picton, B. (2017). Diaphoreolis flavovulta (MacFarland, 1966). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2017-11-01.
- ↑ McDonald, G. (2015). Intertidal Invertebrates of the Monterey Bay Area, California
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