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Tularia bractea

Tularia bractea is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Apataidae.

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Length
183 w
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Tularia bractea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Aeolidacea
Family: Apataidae
Genus: Tularia
Species:
T. bractea
Binomial name
Tularia bractea
(Burn, 1962) 1
Synonyms

Cuthona bractea Burn, 1962

Tularia bractea is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Apataidae.23

Distribution

This species was described from Australia. It is known only from temperate waters in the south of Australia and New Zealand.45

References

References

  1. Burn, R.F. (1962) Descriptions of Victorian nudibranchiate mollusca, with a comprehensive review of the Eolidacea. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, 25: 95-128.
  2. Korshunova T.; Fletcher K.; Martynov A. (2025). The endless forms are the most differentiated—how taxonomic pseudo-optimization masked natural diversity and evolution: the nudibranch case Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Volume 204, Issue 4, August 2025, zlaf057,
  3. Rosenberg, G.; Bouchet, P. (2012). Tularia bractea (Burn, 1962). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed on 2017-11-18
  4. Rudman, W.B., 2007 (September 10) Tularia bractea (Burn, 1962). [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
  5. Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1