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Akiodoris lutescens

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Akiodoris lutescens
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Superfamily: Onchidoridoidea
Family: Akiodorididae
Genus: Akiodoris
Species:
A. lutescens
Binomial name
Akiodoris lutescens
(Bergh, 1879)[1]

Akiodoris lutescens is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Onchidorididae.[2]

Distribution

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This species was described from a specimen collected by William Healey Dall in Nazan Bay at Atka Island, Aleutian Islands.[1] It has been redescribed from specimens collected in the Sea of Okhotsk and the Commander Islands, Russia.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b Bergh, L. S. R. (1879). On the nudibranchiate gasteropod Mollusca of the North Pacific Ocean, with special reference to those of Alaska. Scientific Results of the Exploration of Alaska, part I, Article V. (1):127-188, pls. 1-8.
  2. ^ Bouchet, P. (2015). Akiodoris lutescens Bergh, 1879. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-11-16.
  3. ^ Millen, S. V. and Martynov, A. V. (2005). Redescriptions of the nudibranch genera Akiodoris Bergh, 1879 and Armodoris Minichev, 1972 (Suborder Doridacea), with a new species of Akiodoris and a new family Akiodorididae. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 56[1], 1-22.