Species Madrella sanguinea (Angas, 1864)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Janus sanguineus Angas, G.F. 1864. Description d'espèces nouvelles appartenant à plusieurs genres de Mollusques nudibranches des environs de Port Jackson, (Nouvelles-Galles du Sud), accompagnée de dessins faits d'après nature. Journal de Conchyliologie 12: 43–70 [63–64, pl. 6, fig. 5].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Watsons Bay, Port Jackson, NSW.

Generic Combinations

• Madrella sanguinea (Angas, 1864).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

0–25 m.

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Burn, R. 1989. Opisthobranchs (Subclass Opisthobranchia). In, Shepherd, S.A. & Thomas, I.M (eds). Marine Invertebrates of Southern Australia. Part II. Adelaide : South Australian Government Printing Division. [pl. 55.6] (photo)

Burn, R. 2006. A checklist and bibliography of the Opisthobranchia (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Victoria and the Bass Strait area, south-eastern Australia. Museum Victoria Science Report 10: 1-42

Coleman, N. 2001. 1001 Nudibranchs - Catalogue of Indo-Pacific Sea Slugs. Springwood, Queensland : Neville Coleman’s Underwater Geographic Pty Ltd 144 pp. [103] (photo)

Wells, F.E. & Bryce, C.W. 1993. Sea Slugs of Western Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 184 pp. [166]

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