Species Chromodoris cf. africana Eliot, 1904

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• Chromodoris africana Eliot, C.N.E. 1904. On some nudibranchs from East Africa and Zanzibar. Part 4. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1904, vol. 1: 380-406 [392].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, East Coast of Zanzibar.

Introduction

Specimens compared to Chromodoris africana Eliot, 1904, included here as an informal name.

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Cobb, G. & Willan, R.C. 2006. Undersea Jewels. A Colour Guide to Nudibranchs. Canberra : Australian Biological Resources Study 310 pp. [111] (as Chromodoris cf. africana Eliot, 1904)

Coleman, N. 2008. Nudibranchs Encyclopedia. Queensland : Neville Coleman's Underwater Geographic 416 pp. [137]

Eliot, C.N.E. 1904. On some nudibranchs from East Africa and Zanzibar. Part 3. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1903, 2: 354–385 [392]

Marshall, J.G. & Willan, R.C. 1999. Nudibranchs of Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef. Leiden : Backhuys 257 pp. [89-90]

Rudman, W.B. 1999. Chromodoris cf. africana Rudman, 1982. [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet.cfm?base=chrocfaf.

Wells, F.E. & Bryce, C.W. 1993. Sea Slugs of Western Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 184 pp. [123, species 153]

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