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CAAB Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Mollusca (phylum)  »  Gastropoda (class)  »  Nudibranchia (order)  »  Aeolidiidae (family)

CAAB Code:	24 462014 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Anteaeolidiella lurana    (Marcus & Marcus, 1967)
CAAB category:	24 - Mollusca - Gastropoda
Family:	Aeolidiidae (nudibranchs) - show full list
Common Name:	[a nudibranch]
Recent Synonyms:	Anteaeolidiella indica
Organism Type:	a nudibranch
Taxon Notes:	This species was previously included in Anteaeolidiella indica s.l., which is now known to be a species complex, and has also been confused with A. cacaotica. All previous records of A. indica and A. cacaotica from this region need to re-examined to determine their true identity. A. lurana was originally described from Brazil, and is widespread in the Atlantic Ocean and the Indo-Pacific region.
Identifiers:	World Register of Marine Species urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:730437    Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2016-05-10 View at WoRMS    - also at OBIS (report and map of occurrences)
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Regions:	Australia (inc. subantarctic territories) New Zealand (inc. subantarctic territories) South Pacific (Fiji etc.) Tropical Indo-Pacific (countries N/NE Australia) Indian Ocean (non coastal)
Habitat:	Marine unspecified
Record source:	Carmona, L. Bhave, V. Salunkhe, R. Pola, M. Gosliner, T.M. Cervera, J.L., 2014. Systematic review of Anteaeolidiella (Mollusca, Nudibranchia, Aeolidiidae) based on morphological and molecular data, with a description of three new species., Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Vol. 171: 108-132.
Scientific Name verified against:	Burn, R., 2015, Nudibranchs and related molluscs. Museum Victoria Field Guide Series to Marine Life. Museum Victoria, Melbourne, VIC 256pp.