Verconia simplex

Verconia simplex is a species of colourful sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chromodorididae.[1][2]

Verconia simplex
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Euctenidiacea
clade Doridacea
Superfamily:
Doridoidea
Family:
Chromodorididae
Genus:
Verconia
Species:
V. simplex
Binomial name
Verconia simplex
(Pease, 1871)
Synonyms
  • Chromodoris simplex Pease, 1871 (original combination)
  • Noumea simplex (Pease, 1871)

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the tropical West Pacific and off Australia (Queensland).

Description

The length of the body varies between 5 mm and 14 mm.

Ecology
gollark: I have heard as much. They apparently aren't deployed much because of a lot of legal restrictions surrounding them in any case.
gollark: Unmitigated worship of him as the supreme overlord of mankind is silly, but so is claiming that he's useless and doesn't do anything.
gollark: Although he does do stupid things sometimes.
gollark: Oh, and he's partly behind OpenAI, which while kind of annoying in some ways is responsible for GPT-2 and GPT-3, which are *really cool*.
gollark: Tons of institutions and people are overly focused on maintaining the status quo, but Elon at least has interesting ideas and sometimes makes them work.

References
  1. Bieler, R. (2015). Verconia simplex (Pease, 1871). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=866663 on 2016-01-13
  2. Rudman W.B. (1984) The Chromodorididae (Opisthobranchia: Mollusca) of the Indo-West Pacific: a review of the genera. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 81 (2/3): 115-273. page(s): 141 Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=558465 on 2012-02-25
  • Pease, W.H. 1871. Descriptions of new nudibranchiate Mollusca inhabiting Polynesia. American Journal of Conchology 7: 11-20
  • Marshall, J.G. & Willan, R.C. 1999. Nudibranchs of Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef. Leiden : Backhuys 257 pp.
  • Gosliner, T.M., Behrens, D.W. & Valdés, Á. (2008) Indo-Pacific Nudibranchs and seaslugs. A field guide to the world's most diverse fauna. Sea Challengers Natural History Books, Washington, 426 pp.
  • "Noumea simplex". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  • Photos of Verconia simplex on Sealife Collection


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.