Baeolidia harrietae
Baeolidia harrietae is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch. It is a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Aeolidiidae.[2]
| Baeolidia harrietae | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Suborder: | Cladobranchia |
| Family: | Aeolidiidae |
| Genus: | Baeolidia |
| Species: | B. harrietae |
| Binomial name | |
| Baeolidia harrietae (Rudman, 1982)[1] | |
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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
Baeolidia harrietae is an extremely flattened animal which hides on the surface of the colonial zoantharian Palythoa.[4][3]
References
- 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
- MolluscaBase (2018). Baeolidia harrietae (Rudman, 1982). Accessed on 2018-11-22.
- 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.
- Rudman, W.B., 2002 (July 18) Aeolidiopsis harrietae Rudman, 1982. [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
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