Dermatobranchus fortunatus is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Arminidae.[2]
| Dermatobranchus fortunatus | |
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| The nudibranch Dermatobranchus fortunatus, Lipah Bay, Amed, Bali. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Suborder: | Cladobranchia |
| Family: | Arminidae |
| Genus: | Dermatobranchus |
| Species: | D. fortunatus
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| Binomial name | |
| Dermatobranchus fortunatus | |
Distribution
editThis species occurs in the Indo-Pacific region. It was described from Java, Indonesia.[1] It has been reported from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia,[3] Okinawa, Japan,[4] the Seychelles, Marshall Islands, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, eastern Malaysia, and the Philippines.[5]
References
edit- ^ a b Bergh R. 1888. Die Pleuroleuriden, eine Familie der Nudibranchiaten Gasträopoden. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung Für Systematik Geographie Und Biologie Der Tiere 36: 348–364.
- ^ Bouchet, P. (2015). Dermatobranchus fortunatus. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-09-30
- ^ Marshall J.G., Willan R.C. 1999. Nudibranchs of Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef. Leiden: Backhuys.
- ^ Bolland R. 2003. Okinawa SlugSite. Available at: http://rfbolland.com/okislugs/index.html
- ^ Gosliner T.M. & Fahey S.J. (2011) Previously undocumented diversity and abundance of cryptic species: a phylogenetic analysis of Indo-Pacific Arminidae Rafinesque, 1814 (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) with descriptions of 20 new species of Dermatobranchus. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 161: 245–356.