Aegires albopunctatus
| Aegires albopunctatus | |
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| Aegires albopunctatus from Fitzgerald Marine Reserve, California | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Suborder: | Doridina |
| Superfamily: | Polyceroidea |
| Family: | Aegiridae |
| Genus: | Aegires |
| Species: | A. albopunctatus
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| Binomial name | |
| Aegires albopunctatus MacFarland, 1905[1]
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Aegires albopunctatus, common name salt-and-pepper doris, is a species of sea slug, an Eastern Pacific Ocean nudibranch, a marine, opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Aegiridae.[2]
Distribution[edit]
This marine species occurs off British Columbia, Canada to Baja California, Mexico.[3][4][5][6]
References[edit]
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- ^ MacFarland, F. M. (1905). A preliminary account of the Dorididae of the Monterey Bay, California. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 18: 35-54
- ^ Bouchet, P. (2015). Aegires albopunctatus MacFarland, 1905. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-05-21
- ^ MacFarland, F.M. (1906) Opisthobranchiate Mollusca from Monterey Bay, California, and vicinity. Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Fisheries, 25: 109–151, pls. 18–31.
- ^ MacFarland, F.M. (1966) Studies of Opisthobranchiate Mollusks of the Pacific Coast of North America. Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences, 6:1–546.
- ^ Rudman, W.B. (2005 July 6). "Aegires albopunctatus Macfarland, 1905". Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
- ^ Fahey S.J. & Gosliner T.M. 2004. A phylogenetic analysis of the Aegiridae Fischer, 1883 (Mollusca, Nudibranchia, Phanerobranchia) with descriptions of eight new species and a reassessment of Phanerobranch relationships. Archived 2007-02-07 at the Wayback Machine Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, (4) 55(34): 613–689.
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