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Polycera maculata

Polycera maculata is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Polyceridae.

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Polycera maculata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Family: Polyceridae
Genus: Polycera
Species:
P. maculata
Binomial name
Polycera maculata
Synonyms
  • Palio maculata (Pruvot-Fol, 1951)

Polycera maculata is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Polyceridae.2

Distribution

This species was described from a single specimen dredged offshore of Marseille, Mediterranean Sea.

References

References

  1. Pruvot-Fol A. (1951). Etudes des nudibranches de la Méditerranée 2. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 88: 1-80.
  2. MolluscaBase (2018). Polycera maculata Pruvot-Fol, 1951. Accessed on 2018-09-12.