Chlamylla polaris
| Chlamylla polaris | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Suborder: | Aeolidacea |
| Family: | Flabellinidae |
| Genus: | Chlamylla |
| Species: | C. polaris |
| Binomial name | |
| Chlamylla polaris (Volodchenko, 1946)[1] | |
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Chlamylla polaris is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine heterobranch mollusc in the family Flabellinidae.[2]
Distribution
This species was described from the Arctic Ocean.
Description
Chlamylla polaris is a flabellinid nudibranch with numerous closely spaced cerata and extremely long rhinophores. The body is translucent white and the digestive gland in the cerata is red. There is a broad band of opaque white pigment at the tip of the cerata. The rhinophores are smooth or slightly wrinkled and the oral tentacles have a splash of white pigment in the outer third.[3]
References
- ↑ Volodchenko, N. I. 1946. New species of Nudibranchiata from the Arctic Ocean. Trudy Dreifuiushchei ekspeditsii Glavseymorputi na ledokol' nom parakhode G. Sedov 1937-1940. 3:323.
- ↑ Ekimova I., Carmona L., Mikhlina AL., Grishina D., Stanovova M.V., Schepetov D.M., Hoover C., de Souza-Canal J., Kuznetsov K.O., Valdés A.; (2026). Neither "lumpers" nor "splitters": A global revision of Flabellinidae s.l. nudibranchs (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Nudibranchia). PLoS One 21(5): e0347759.
- ↑ Semenov, A., 2015. Flabellina polaris Flickr, accessed 07-11-2015.
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