Aeolidiopsis harrietae

Aeolidiopsis harrietae
Aeolidiopsis harrietae (specimen at the Australian Museum)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Aeolidacea
Family: Aeolidiidae
Genus: Aeolidiopsis
Species:
A. harrietae
Binomial name
Aeolidiopsis harrietae
Rudman, 1982[1]
Synonyms

Baeolidia harrietae (Rudman, 1982)

Aeolidiopsis harrietae is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch. It is a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Aeolidiidae.[2]

Distribution

This species was described from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. It has been reported from Papua New Guinea, the Philippines and the Ryukyu Islands, Japan.[3]

Description

Aeolidiopsis harrietae is an extremely flattened animal which hides on the surface of the colonial zoantharian Palythoa.[4][3]

References

  1. ↑ Rudman, W.B. (1982) The taxonomy and biology of further aeolidacean and arminacean nudibranch molluscs with symbiotic zooxanthellae. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 74, 147–196. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1982.tb01146.x
  2. ↑ Aeolidiopsis harrietae Rudman, 1982. 4 August 2026. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
  3. 1 2 Carmona L., Pola M., Gosliner T.M. & Cervera J.L. 2014. Review of Baeolidia, the largest genus of Aeolidiidae (Mollusca: Nudibranchia), with the description of five new species. Zootaxa, 3802 (4): 477–514.
  4. ↑ Rudman, W.B., 2002 (July 18) Aeolidiopsis harrietae Rudman, 1982. [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
  • Ortea J. & Moro L. (2020). Integrando la Historia en la Naturaleza: nuevo aeolidáceo (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) para recordar la gesta de Magallanes y Elcano. Avicennia. 26: 15-26