Onchidoris hystricina

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

Onchidoris hystricina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Euctenidiacea

clade Doridacea
Superfamily:
Onchidoridoidea
Family:
Onchidorididae
Genus:
Onchidoris
Species:
O. hystricina
Binomial name
Onchidoris hystricina
(Bergh, 1879)[1]

Distribution

This species was described from a specimen collected by William Healey Dall in Alaska at Kyska Island, Aleutian Islands. It is considered by some authors to be a synonym of Onchidoris muricata.[3] The name was used incorrectly for the species Diaphorodoris lirulatocauda on the Pacific coast of the US and Canada.[3]

References
  1. 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). Onchidoris hystricina (Bergh, 1878). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-01-21.
  3. Millen, S. V. (1985). The nudibranch genera Onchidoris & Diaphorodoris (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia) in the northeastern Pacific. Veliger 28(1):80-93.
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