Acanthodoris nanaimoensis

Acanthodoris nanaimoensis
Acanthodoris nanaimoensis from Pillar Point, California
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Euctenidiacea
clade Doridacea

Superfamily: Onchidoridoidea
Family: Onchidorididae
Genus: Acanthodoris
Species: A. nanaimoensis
Binomial name
Acanthodoris nanaimoensis
O'Donoghue, 1921[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Acanthodoris columbina MacFarland, 1926
Acanthodoris nanaimoensis

Acanthodoris nanaimoensis is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Onchidorididae.[3]

Distribution

This species was described from Jesse Island and the lagoon near Hammond's Bay, Nanaimo, British Columbia. Frank Mace MacFarland described the same species from Moss Beach, near Montara Point, San Mateo County, California under the name Acanthodoris columbina.[4] It is reported from Halibut Point, Baranof Island, Alaska south to Purisima Point, Santa Barbara, California.[5][6][7] Specimens from Pillar Point, San Mateo County, California and Puget Sound, Kitsap County, Washington have been sequenced for the 16S ribosomal RNA, Histone H3 and CO1 genes.[8][9]

References

  1. O'Donoghue, Charles Henry. (1921) Nudibranchiate Mollusca from the Vancouver Island region. Transactions of the Royal Canadian Institute 13(1):147-209, pls. 7-11 [1-5].
  2. Fahey S. & Valdés A. (2005). A review of Acanthodoris Gray, 1850 with a Phylogenetic Analysis of Onchidorididae Alder and Hancock, 1845 (Mollusca, Nudibranchia). Archived July 21, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 56: 213-272.
  3. Bouchet, P. (2015). Acanthodoris nanaimoensis O’Donoghue, 1921. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-01-11.
  4. Macfarland, F. M. (1926) The Acanthodorididae of the California coast. Nautilus 39(3):94-103, page 94.
  5. Lee, R. S., & Nora R. Foster. (1985) A distributional list with range extensions of the opisthobranch gastropods of Alaska. Veliger 27(4):440-448.
  6. Behrens, D. W., & Hermosillo, A. (2005) Eastern Pacific nudibranchs, a guide to the opisthobranchs from Alaska to Central America. vi + 137 pp., 314 photos. Sea Challengers, Monterey, California, page 56.
  7. Rudman, W.B., 2005 (November 10) Acanthodoris nanaimoensis O'Donoghue, 1921. [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
  8. Hallas, JM and Gosliner, TM. (2015) Family Matters: the first molecular phylogeny of the Onchidorididae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Nudibranchia). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 88: 16-27.
  9. Hallas, J.M., Simison, W.B. & Gosliner, T.M. (2016) Dating and biogeographical patterns in the sea slug genus Acanthodoris Gray, 1850 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Nudibranchia). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 97: 19-31.
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