Pleurobranchus crossei

Pleurobranchus crossei
Specimen of Pleurobranchus crossei (holotype at MNHN? Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Pleurobranchida
Family: Pleurobranchidae
Genus: Pleurobranchus
Species:
P. crossei
Binomial name
Pleurobranchus crossei
Vayssière, 1897
Synonyms

Pleurobranchus (Pleurobranchus) crossei Vayssière, 1897

Pleurobranchus crossei is a species of pleurobranchid sea slug, a type of marine gastropod mollusc[1]

Description

The size of the holotype is 22 mm.

Distribution

This species is commonly found in the Caribbean Sea.

References

  1. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Pleurobranchus crossei Vayssière, 1897. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=758611 on 2022-01-28
  • Ortea J., Espinosa J., Caballer M. & Buske Y. (2012) Initial inventory of the seaslugs (Opisthobranchia and Sacoglossa) from the expedition Karubentos, held in May 2012 in Guadeloupe (Lesser Antilles, Caribbean Sea). Revista de la Academia Canaria de Ciencias 24: 153–182.
  • Ortea J., Moro L. & Caballer M. (2014). Contribución al estudio de la familia Pleurobranchidae Gray, 1827 (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia) en la Macaronesia y las islas Galápagos. Vieraea. 42: 117-148
  • Ortea J. & Moro L. (2017). Nuevas citas y nuevos datos sobre las lesmas do mar (Mollusca: Heterobranchia) de las islas de Cabo Verde, con el restablecimiento de Tritonia pallescens (Eliot, 1906). Avicennia. 21: 1–10.