Tambja sagamiana

Tambja sagamiana
Tambja sagamiana in Sukumo Bay, Kōchi Prefecture, Japan.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Euctenidiacea
clade Doridacea

Superfamily: Polyceroidea
Family: Polyceridae
Subfamily: Nembrothinae
Genus: Tambja
Species: T. sagamiana
Binomial name
Tambja sagamiana
Baba, 1955[1]
Synonyms[2]

Nembrotha sagamiana Baba, 1955

Tambja sagamiana is a species of colourful sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Polyceridae.[3] [2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the West Pacific Ocean around Japan, Taiwan and Korea.[4]

Description

Tambja sagamiana is blue with yellow to orange pustule-like spots all over its body. The spots are outlined in black. It has green gills and black rhinophores. The foot is yellow. This animal can reach a total length of at least 110 mm.

References

  1. Baba, K. (1955). Opisthobranchia of Sagami Bay supplement. 59 pp., 20 pls. Iwanami Shoten, Tokyo.
  2. 1 2 WoRMS : Tambja sagamania accessed : 13 October 2010]
  3. http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet.cfm?base=tambsaga
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