Dermatobranchus albineus
| Dermatobranchus albineus | |
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| Llandudno, South Africa | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Suborder: | Cladobranchia |
| Family: | Arminidae |
| Genus: | Dermatobranchus |
| Species: | D. albineus
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| Binomial name | |
| Dermatobranchus albineus | |
Dermatobranchus albineus is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Arminidae.[2]
Distribution[edit]
This species was described from Hottentots Huisie (Oudekraal), Atlantic coast, Cape Peninsula, Cape Province, South Africa 33°59.2407′S 18°20.81224′E / 33.9873450°S 18.34687067°E at 7 m depth. Multiple specimens from this locality and east as far as Algoa Bay, Port Elizabeth were included in the original description.
References[edit]
- ^ Gosliner T.M. & Fahey S.J. (2011) Previously undocumented diversity and abundance of cryptic species: a phylogenetic analysis of Indo-Pacific Arminidae Rafinesque, 1814 (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) with descriptions of 20 new species of Dermatobranchus. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 161: 245–356.
- ^ Bouchet, P. (2015). Dermatobranchus albineus. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-09-30