Caloria indica

Caloria indica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura

clade Nudibranchia
clade Dexiarchia
clade Cladobranchia
clade Aeolidida

Superfamily: Aeolidioidea
Family: Facelinidae
Genus: Caloria
Species: C. indica
Binomial name
Caloria indica
(Bergh, 1896)[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Aeolidia dangeri Risbec, J., 1928
  • Learchis indica Bergh 1896[1]
  • Phidiana indica (Bergh, 1896)

Caloria indica is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Facelinidae.[2][3]

Description

The size of the body varies between 25 mm and 50 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Indo-West Pacific; also as an invasive species in the Israeli part of the Mediterranean Sea.

References

  1. 1 2 Bergh L. S. R. (1896). "Eolidiens d'Amboine. Voyage de MM. M. Bedot et C. Pictet dans l'Archipel Malais". Revue Suisse de Zoologie 4: 385-394, Plate 16.
  2. 1 2 Gofas, S. (2009). Caloria indica (Bergh, 1896). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2009) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=181240 on 2010-05-18
  3. "Caloria indica". CLEMAM. accessed 19 May 2010.


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