Species Thecacera pennigera (Montagu, 1815)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Doris pennigera Montagu, G. 1815. Descriptions of several new or rare animals, principally marine, discovered on the South Coast of Devonshire. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 11: 1–26 [17, pl. 4, fig. 5].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Devonshire, England.

Generic Combinations

• Thacacera pennigera (Montagu, 1815).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

5–10 m. New Zealand

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Coleman, N. 2001. 1001 Nudibranchs - Catalogue of Indo-Pacific Sea Slugs. Springwood, Queensland : Neville Coleman’s Underwater Geographic Pty Ltd 144 pp. [47] (photo)

Rudman, W.B. 1998. Opisthobranchia: History of Discovery and Order Nudibranchia. In, Beesley, P.L., Ross, G.J.B. & Wells, A. (eds). Mollusca: The Southern Synthesis. Fauna of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 5(Part A) pp. xvi, 1-563. [993, fig. 16.74B]

Willan, R.C. & Coleman, N. 1984. Nudibranchs of Australasia. Caringbah, New South Wales : Australasian Marine Photographic Index 56 pp. [15, fig. 24]

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