Dendronotus gracilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Dexiarchia
clade Cladobranchia

clade Dendronotida
Superfamily:
Tritonioidea
Family:
Dendronotidae
Genus:
Dendronotus
Species:
D. gracilis
Binomial name
Dendronotus gracilis
Baba, 1949[1]

Dendronotus gracilis is a species of sea slug, a dendronotid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dendronotidae.[2]

Distribution

This species was described from Sagami Bay, Japan. It has been reported from Okinawa and New Zealand.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Baba, K. (1949). Opisthobranchia of Sagami Bay collected by His Majesty The Emperor of Japan. 194 pp., 50 pls. Iwanami Shoten, Tokyo.
  2. ↑ Bouchet, P. (2015). Dendronotus gracilis. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-02-08.
  3. ↑ Pola M. & Stout C.C. (2008). Description of the first two tropical Indo-Pacific species of Dendronotus (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia) with new data of the poorly known species Dendronotus gracilis Baba, 1949. Zootaxa, 1960: 45-66
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