Biology:Aldisa sanguinea

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Short description: Species of gastropod

Blood-spot dorid
Aldisa sanguina from Point Pinos, California.jpg
Aldisa sanguinea from Point Pinos, California
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Doridina
Superfamily: Doridoidea
Family: Cadlinidae
Genus: Aldisa
Species:
A. sanguinea
Binomial name
Aldisa sanguinea
(J. G. Cooper, 1863)[1]

Aldisa sanguinea, common name the blood-spot dorid, is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cadlinidae.[2]

Distribution

This species was described from California . It has subsequently been recorded on the western seaboard of North America from British Columbia south to Mexico. In the north of this range, in Oregon and British Columbia, specimens are found which lack the two characteristic round markings on the back resembling the inhalant pore sieves of Hymedesmiid sponges. It is possible that these belong to a separate species.[3]

Ecology

This species feeds on a red Hymedesmia sponge.[3]

References

  1. Cooper J. G. (1863). "Some new genera and species of California Mollusca". Proceedings of the California Academy of Natural Sciences 2: 202-207.
  2. MolluscaBase (2018). Aldisa sanguinea (J. G. Cooper, 1863). Accessed on 2018-12-03.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Rudman, W.B., 2002 (February 18) Aldisa sanguinea (Cooper, 1863). [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.

Wikidata ☰ Q3168458 entry