Biology:Atagema ornata
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Short description: Species of gastropod
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Suborder: | Doridina |
| Superfamily: | Doridoidea |
| Family: | Discodorididae |
| Genus: | Atagema |
| Species: | A. ornata
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| Atagema ornata (Ehrenberg, 1831)
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Atagema ornata is a species of sea slug or dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Discodorididae.[2] It has been considered to be synonymous with Atagema intecta by some authors.[3]
Distribution
This species was described from the Red Sea and is known from the Indian and western Pacific Oceans.[3]
Ecology
This dorid nudibranch feeds on sponges.
References
- ↑ Ehrenberg, Christian Gottfried. 1828, 1831. Symbolae physicae seu icones et descriptiones animalium evertebratorum sepositis insectis quae ex itinere per Africam borealem et Asiam Occidentalem—novae aut illustratae redierunt. Decas 1 Mollusca.
- ↑ "Atagema ornata (Ehrenberg, 1831)". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species. 2022. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=719015.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Valdés, Ángel; Gosliner, Terrence M. (2001). "Systematics and phylogeny of the caryophyllidia-bearing dorids (Mollusca, Nudibranchia), with descriptions of a new genus and four new species from Indo-Pacific deep waters". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 133 (2): 103–198. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2001.tb00689.x.
Wikidata ☰ Q13402057 entry
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