Felimare lilyeveae is a species of colourful sea slug or dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chromodorididae.[2][3]
Felimare lilyeveae | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Nudibranchia |
Family: | Chromodorididae |
Genus: | Felimare |
Species: | F. lilyeveae
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Binomial name | |
Felimare lilyeveae (Alejandrino & Valdés, 2006)[1]
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Distribution
editThis species occurs in the Caribbean Sea and off the Lesser Antilles.[4]
Description
editThe maximum recorded body length is 26 mm (1.0 in).[4]
Habitat
editReported from 12–18 m (39–59 ft) depth.[4]
References
edit- ^ Alejandrino A. & Valdés Á. (2006) Phylogeny and biogeography of the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific Hypselodoris Stimpson, 1855 (Nudibranchia,Chromodorididae) with the description of a new species from the Caribbean Sea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 72: 189-198.
- ^ Bouchet, P. (2015). Felimare lilyeveae (Alejandrino & Valdés, 2006). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-11-18
- ^ Johnson R.F. & Gosliner T.M. (2012) Traditional taxonomic groupings mask evolutionary history: A molecular phylogeny and new classification of the chromodorid nudibranchs. PLoS ONE 7(4): e33479
- ^ a b c Valdés, Ángel; Hamann, Jeff; Behrens, David W.; DuPont, Anne. Caribbean Sea Slugs, Sea Challengers Natural History Books, Etc., Gig Harbor, Washington 2006, p. 162-3. ISBN 0-9700574-2-3