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Galvinella antarctica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Aeolidacea
Family: Eubranchidae
Genus: Galvinella
Species:
G. antarctica
Binomial name
Galvinella antarctica
(Eliot, 1907)
Synonyms
  • Cuthona elioti Odhner, 1944
  • Cuthonella antarctica Eliot, 1907[1]
  • Cuthonella elioti Odhner, 1944

Galvinella antarctica is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Eubranchidae.[2]

Distribution

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This species was described from Winter Quarters Bay, Ross Sea, Antarctica. It has been found on several occasions in McMurdo Sound, Ross Sea, Antarctica 77°51′02.31″S 166°39′56.07″E / 77.8506417°S 166.6655750°E / -77.8506417; 166.6655750.[3]

References

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  1. Eliot, C. N. E. (1907). Mollusca. IV. Nudibranchiata. National Antarctic Expedition 1901-1904. Natural History 2, Mollusca, IV:1-28, 1 pl.p.23.
  2. Korshunova T.; Fletcher K.; Martynov A. (2025). The endless forms are the most differentiated—how taxonomic pseudo-optimization masked natural diversity and evolution: the nudibranch case Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Volume 204, Issue 4, August 2025, zlaf057,
  3. Valdés Á., Moran A.L. & Woods H.A. (2012). Revision of several poorly known Antarctic aeolid nudibranch species (Mollusca: Gastropoda), with the description of a new species. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 92(5): 1161-1174.