Berghia creutzbergi

Berghia creutzbergi
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: Aeolidiidae
Genus: Berghia
Species: B. creutzbergi
Binomial name
Berghia creutzbergi
Er. Marcus & Ev. Marcus, 1970[1]
Synonyms[2]

Spurilla creutzbergi (Er. Marcus & Ev. Marcus, 1970)
Milleria ritmica Ortea, Caballer & Espinosa, 2003
Millereolidia ritmica (Ortea, Caballer & Espinosa, 2003)

Berghia creutzbergi is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch. It is a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Aeolidiidae.[2]

Distribution

This species is an inhabitant of the Tropical Western Atlantic Ocean present in Brazil, Curaçao, Venezuela, Barbados, Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica, Cuba and Florida.[3]

Description

Berghia creutzbergi has a maximum reported size of 30 mm.[4]

Habitat

This species is found in depths from 0 to 5 m.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Marcus, Er. & Marcus, Ev. 1970. Opisthobranchs from Curaçao and faunistically related regions. Studies on the fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands, 33: 1–129.
  2. 1 2 Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2014). Berghia creutzbergi Er. Marcus & Ev. Marcus, 1970. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-02-23
  3. ↑ Carmona L., Pola M., Gosliner T.M. & Cervera J.L. (2014). The Atlantic-Mediterranean genus Berghia Trinchese, 1877 (Nudibranchia: Aeolidiidae): taxonomic review and phylogenetic analysis. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 80(5): 482-498.
  4. ↑ Valdés, Ángel; Hamann, Jeff; Behrens, David W.; DuPont, Anne. Caribbean Sea Slugs, Sea Challengers Natural History Books, Etc., Gig Harbor, Washington 2006, pp. 158-159. ISBN 0-9700574-2-3
  5. ↑ Rudman, W.B., 2003 (October 15) Spurilla creutzbergi (Marcus & Marcus, 1970). [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
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