Marianina rosea
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:
Tritoniidae
Genus:
Marianina
Species:
M. rosea
Binomial name
Marianina rosea
(Pruvot-Fol, 1930)[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Mariana rosea Pruvot-Fol, 1930
  • Aranucus bifidus Odhner, 1936

Marianina rosea is a species of sea slug, a dendronotid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Tritoniidae.[2]

Distribution

Marianina rosea was discovered at Ile de Pins, New Caledonia and first described in 1930. It is found throughout the Tropical Indo-Pacific from the Marianas Islands to South Africa.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Pruvot-Fol A. (1930). Diagnoses provisoires (incomplètes) des espèces nouvelles et liste provisoire des mollusques nudibranches recueillis par Mme A. Pruvot-Fol en Nouvelle Cadédonie (Ile de Pins). Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. ser. 2, 2: 229-233.
  2. 1 2 MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Marianina khaleesi (Silva, de Azevedo et Matthews-Cascon, 2014). Accessed on 2021-01-08
  3. ↑ Rudman, W.B., 2000 (June 24) Marianina rosea (Pruvot-Fol, 1930). [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
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