Atagema ornata

Atagema ornata is a species of sea slug or dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Discodorididae.[2]

Atagema ornata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
Superfamily:
Doridoidea
Family:
Discodorididae
Genus:
Atagema
Species:
A. ornata
Binomial name
Atagema ornata
(Ehrenberg, 1831)[1]
Synonyms

Doris ornata Ehrenberg, 1831
Trippa ornata (Ehrenberg, 1831)

Distribution

This species was described from the Red Sea. It is considered to be synonymous with Atagema intecta by some authors.[3]

Ecology

This dorid nudibranch feeds on sponges.

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References
  1. Ehrenberg, Christian Gottfried. 1828, 1831. Symbolae physicae seu icones et descriptiones animalium evertebratorum sepositis insectis quae ex itinere per Africam borealem et Asiam Occidentalem—novae aut illustratae redierunt. Decas 1 Mollusca.
  2. Bouchet, P. (2015). Atagema ornata (Ehrenberg, 1831). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-10-26.
  3. Valdés Á. & Gosliner T.M. 2001. Systematics and phylogeny of the caryophyllidia-bearing dorids (Mollusca, Nudibranchia), with the description of a new genus and four new species from Indo-Pacific deep waters. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 133(2): 103-198


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