Lobiger serradifalci

Lobiger serradifalci
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

Informal group Opisthobranchia
clade Sacoglossa
clade Oxynoacea

Superfamily: Oxynooidea
Family: Oxynoidae
Genus: Lobiger
Species: L. serradifalci
Binomial name
Lobiger serradifalci
Calcara, 1840[1]

Lobiger serradifalci is a species of small sea snail or sea slug, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Oxynoidae.

Distribution

The type locality for this species is Sicily, Italy.[2]

Life habits

This species feeds on the invasive algae Caulerpa taxifolia.[3]

References

  1. Calcara P. (1840). Monografie dei generi Clausilia e Bulimo coll'aggiunta di alcune nuove species di conchiglie siciliane esistenti nella collezione della Signora. Teresa Gargotta in Salinas. pp. 7-54. Palermo, Stamperia di Antonio Muratori.
  2. Jensen K. R. (November 2007). "Biogeography of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia)". Bonner zoologische Beiträge 55(2006)(3-4): 255–281.
  3. http://www.unice.fr/LEML/Pages/Pub_LEML/Zuljevic%20et%20al2001.pdf


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