Okenia vena
Okenia vena is a species of sea slug, specifically a dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Goniodorididae.
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Nudipleura clade Nudibranchia clade Euctenidiacea clade Doridacea |
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| Species: | O. vena |
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| Okenia vena Rudman, 2004[1] | |
Distribution
This species was described from northern New South Wales, Australia. It is known only from eastern Australia.[2]
Description
This Okenia has a narrow body and seven to eight lateral papillae on each side and papillae in the middle of the back. The body is white and the rhinophores are brown. There is a pattern of broken brown lines on the back and tail.
Ecology
The diet of this species is the ctenostome bryozoan Amathia tortuosa.
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gollark: Well, thinking is hard to define too.
gollark: If it's sufficiently random, and you sample it long enough, you'll eventually get Shakespeare plays and such!
gollark: So what *does* have souls? Plants? Fungi? Sufficiently complex computer programs?
gollark: Actually, do bacteria have souls? Can they be paid in those?
References
- Rudman W.B. (2004) Further species of the opisthobranch genus Okenia (Nudibranchia: Goniodorididae) from the Indo-West Pacific. Zootaxa 695 : 1-70
- Rudman, W.B., 2004 (December 21) Okenia vena Rudman, 2004. [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
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