Hoplodoris grandiflora

Hoplodoris grandiflora
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia; clade Euthyneura; clade Nudipleura; clade Nudibranchia; clade Euctenidiacea; clade Doridacea
Superfamily:	Doridoidea
Family:	Discodorididae
Genus:	Hoplodoris
Species:	H. grandiflora
Binomial name
	Hoplodoris grandiflora; (Pease, 1860)[1]
Synonyms
	Carminodoris grandiflora (Pease, 1860); Carminodoris mauritiana Bergh, 1889; Doris grandiflora Pease, 1860 (original combination); Doris grandifloriger Abraham, 1877 (emendation of Doris grandiflora Pease, 1860); Hoplodoris desmoparypha Bergh, 1880;

Hoplodoris grandiflora is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Discodorididae.[2]

Distribution

This species is recorded from the Indo-West Pacific including Hawaii, the Philippines, Palau, Kerama Island, Mauritius, Tanzania and Madagascar.[3][4]

References

Pease, W.H. (1860) Descriptions of new species of mollusca from the Sandwich Islands. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 28: 18-36.
Rosenberg, G. (2015). Hoplodoris grandiflora Fahey & Gosliner, 2003. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-10-02
Fahey, S. J., 2003 (October 21) Hoplodoris grandiflora [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
Fahey S.J. & Gosliner T.M. 2003. "Mistaken Identities: On the Discodorididae genera Hoplodoris Bergh, 1880 and Carminodoris Bergh, 1889 (Opistobranchia, Nudibranchia)". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, (4) 54(10): 169-208.

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[1] Pease, W.H. (1860) Descriptions of new species of mollusca from the Sandwich Islands. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 28: 18-36.

[2] Rosenberg, G. (2015). Hoplodoris grandiflora Fahey & Gosliner, 2003. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-10-02

[3] Fahey, S. J., 2003 (October 21) Hoplodoris grandiflora [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.

[FG2003-4] Fahey S.J. & Gosliner T.M. 2003. "Mistaken Identities: On the Discodorididae genera Hoplodoris Bergh, 1880 and Carminodoris Bergh, 1889 (Opistobranchia, Nudibranchia)". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, (4) 54(10): 169-208.