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Okenia elegans

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Okenia elegans
Rathlin Island, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Superfamily: Onchidoridoidea
Family: Goniodorididae
Genus: Okenia
Species:
O. elegans
Binomial name
Okenia elegans
(Leuckart, 1828)[1]
Synonyms
  • Idalia elegans Leuckart, 1828
  • Euplocamus laciniosus Philippi, 1841[2]
  • Idalia cirrigera Philippi, 1844[3]
  • Idalia dautzenbergi Vayssière, 1919

Okenia elegans, the yellow skirt slug, is a species of a sea slug, specifically a dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Goniodorididae.[4][5] It is the type species of its genus.

Drawing of Okenia elegans from Kunstformen der Natur (1904)

Distribution

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This species was described from near Sète on the Mediterranean Sea coast of France. It is reported from the adjacent Atlantic Ocean as far north as Scotland.[6][7]

References

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  1. ^ Leuckart F. S. (1828). Breves animalium quorundam maxima ex parte marinorum descriptiones. Heidelberg, Oßwald, 24 pp., Okenia elegans is on the page 15, one unnumbered plate, figures 2a-b.
  2. ^ Philippi R. A., 1841: Zoologische Bemerkungen; Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin 7: 42-59; pl. 5
  3. ^ Philippi R. A., 1844: Enumeratio molluscorum Siciliae cum viventium tum in tellure tertiaria fossilium, quae in itinere suo observavit. Vol. 2 ; Eduard Anton, Halle [Halis Saxorum] iv + 303 p., pl. 13-28
  4. ^ Gofas, S. (2015). Okenia elegans (Leuckart, 1828). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-02-21.
  5. ^ Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213.
  6. ^ Rudman, W.B., 2007 (July 26) Okenia elegans (Leuckart, 1828). [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
  7. ^ Picton, B.E. & Morrow, C.C. (2015). Okenia elegans (Leuckart, 1828). [In] Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland. Accessed on 2016-2-21.
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