Species Dermatobranchus cf. fortunatus (Bergh, 1888)

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• Pleuroleura fortunata Bergh, L.S.R. 1888. Die Pleuroleuriden, eine Familie der nudibranchiaten Gasträopoden. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 3: 348-364 [353] [original spelling; unaccepted].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, India as "Indicum".

Generic Combinations

• Dermatobranchus fortunatus (Bergh, 1888).

Introduction

Specimens similar to Dermatobranchus fortunatus (Bergh, 1888), included here as a informal name.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Diagnosis

elongate body, chocolate-brown veil, and reddish blotches on the mantle's flank

Diagnosis References

Cobb, G. & Willan, R.C. 2006. Undersea Jewels. A Colour Guide to Nudibranchs. Canberra : Australian Biological Resources Study 310 pp. [234]

General References

Cobb, G. & Willan, R.C. 2006. Undersea Jewels. A Colour Guide to Nudibranchs. Canberra : Australian Biological Resources Study 310 pp. [234]

Gosliner, T. M. & Fahey, S.J. 2011. Previously undocumented diversity and abundance of cryptic species: a phylogenetic analysis of Indo-Pacific Arminidae Rafinesque, 1814 (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) with descriptions of 20 new species of Dermatobranchus. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 161: 245-356 [265]

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