Atagema ornata

Atagema ornata is a species of sea slug or dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Discodorididae.[2]

Atagema ornata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
Superfamily:
Doridoidea
Family:
Discodorididae
Genus:
Atagema
Species:
A. ornata
Binomial name
Atagema ornata
(Ehrenberg, 1831)[1]
Synonyms

Doris ornata Ehrenberg, 1831
Trippa ornata (Ehrenberg, 1831)

Distribution

This species was described from the Red Sea. It is considered to be synonymous with Atagema intecta by some authors.[3]

Ecology

This dorid nudibranch feeds on sponges.

References
  1. Ehrenberg, Christian Gottfried. 1828, 1831. Symbolae physicae seu icones et descriptiones animalium evertebratorum sepositis insectis quae ex itinere per Africam borealem et Asiam Occidentalem—novae aut illustratae redierunt. Decas 1 Mollusca.
  2. Bouchet, P. (2015). Atagema ornata (Ehrenberg, 1831). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-10-26.
  3. Valdés Á. & Gosliner T.M. 2001. Systematics and phylogeny of the caryophyllidia-bearing dorids (Mollusca, Nudibranchia), with the description of a new genus and four new species from Indo-Pacific deep waters. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 133(2): 103-198


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