Plocamopherus apheles

Plocamopherus apheles is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusk in the family Polyceridae.

Plocamopherus apheles
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Euctenidiacea

clade Doridacea
Superfamily:
Polyceroidea
Family:
Polyceridae
Subfamily:
Triophinae
Genus:
Plocamopherus
Species:
P. apheles
Binomial name
Plocamopherus apheles
Barnard, 1927

Distribution

This species was described from East London, South Africa.

References

    Barnard, K.H. 1927. South African nudibranch Mollusca, with descriptions of new species, and a note on some specimens from Tristan d’Acunha. Annals of the South African Museum 25:171–215, pls. 119–120.


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