Aldisa sanguinea
| Blood-spot dorid | |
|---|---|
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| Aldisa sanguina from Point Pinos, California | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Nudipleura clade Nudibranchia |
| Superfamily: | Doridoidea |
| Family: | Cadlinidae |
| Genus: | Aldisa |
| Species: | A. sanguinea |
| Binomial name | |
| Aldisa sanguinea (J. G. Cooper, 1863)[1] | |
Aldisa sanguinea, common name the blood-spot dorid, is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cadlinidae.[2]
Distribution
This species was described from California. It has subsequently been recorded on the western seaboard of North America from British Columbia south to Mexico. In the north of this range, in Oregon and British Columbia, specimens are found which lack the two characteristic round markings on the back resembling the inhalant pore sieves of Hymedesmiid sponges. It is possible that these belong to a separate species.[3]
Ecology
This species feeds on a red Hymedesmia sponge.[3]
References
- ↑ Cooper J. G. (1863). [for 1862]. "Some new genera and species of California Mollusca". Proceedings of the California Academy of Natural Sciences 2: 202-207.
- ↑ Turgeon, D.; Quinn, J.F.; Bogan, A.E.; Coan, E.V.; Hochberg, F.G.; Lyons, W.G.; Mikkelsen, P.M.; Neves, R.J.; Roper, C.F.E.; Rosenberg, G.; Roth, B.; Scheltema, A.; Thompson, F.G.; Vecchione, M.; Williams, J.D. (1998). Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: mollusks. 2nd ed. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, 26. American Fisheries Society: Bethesda, MD (USA). ISBN 1-888569-01-8. IX, 526 + cd-rom pp. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=581810 on 2012-02-29
- 1 2 Rudman, W.B., 2002 (February 18) Aldisa sanguinea (Cooper, 1863). [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/showall/aldisang
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