species: Philinopsis speciosa in Fraser Island (Gaia Guide)
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Philinopsis speciosa


©Barbara Banks: Philinopsis speciosa at Lizard Island

©Barbara Banks: Philinopsis speciosa at Lizard Island

©Barbara Banks: Philinopsis speciosa at Lizard Island

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Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Gastropoda
Order Cephalaspidea
Family Aglajidae
Genus Philinopsis
Species Philinopsis speciosa

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Colours

                                                                     

Distinguishing features

Colour highly variable; rear of headshield long and often bent upwards; twin "tails" short and of similar length (Humann and Deloach, 2010)

Size

  • Up to 3.5 cm (Length)

Synonyms

Similar taxa

Comments

The scientific name is not accepted by World Register of Marine Species
by Gaia Guide

Distribution


©Atlas of Living Australia: Australian distribution

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References

  • Anthes, N. (2006). Mating conflicts and their evolution in simultaneously hermaphroditic sea slugs, Ph.D. thesis, Eberhard Karls Universitaet Tuebingen, Germany. LIRS catalog number 976.
  • Anthes, N. and N.K. Michiels (2007). Reproductive morphology, mating behaviour, and spawning ecology of cephalaspid sea slugs (Aglajdae and Gastropteridae), Invertebrate Biology, 126: 335-365. LIRS catalog number 1117.
  • Camacho-García, Y.E., E. Ornelas-Gatdula, T.M. Gosliner and Á. Valdés (2013). Phylogeny of the family Aglajidae (Pilsbry, 1895) (Heterobranchia: Cephalaspidea) inferred from mtDNA and nDNA. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2013.11.010. LIRS catalog number 1707.
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