Eubranchulus rupium
| Green balloon aeolid | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Suborder: | Aeolidacea |
| Genus: | Eubranchulus |
| Species: | E. rupium |
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| Eubranchulus rupium | |
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Eubranchulus rupium, the green balloon aeolid, is a species of sea slug or nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Eubranchidae.[2]
Distribution
[edit]This species was described from Greenland. It is reported from the North Atlantic Ocean as far south as the Netherlands and is considered to be a circumpolar species. It is considered by most authors to be a synonym of Eubranchus olivaceus and is reported as far south as Monterey Bay, California on the Pacific Ocean coast of North America.[3][4][5]
Biology
[edit]This nudibranch feeds on the hydroids Laomedea longissima.[4]
References
[edit]- ↑ Møller, Hans Peter Christian. 1842. Index molluscorum Groenlandiæ naturhist. Tidskr. Kjöbenhavn 4(1):76-97.
- ↑ Bouchet, P.; Picton, B. (2026). Eubranchulus rupium (Møller, 1842). In: MolluscaBase (2026). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2026-04-18.
- ↑ McDonald, G., (2015) Eubranchus rupium. Intertidal Invertebrates of the Monterey Bay Area, California.
- 1 2 Rudman, W.B., 2003 (July 14) Eubranchus rupium (Moller, 1842). [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
- ↑ Goddard, J. H. R., & Nora R. Foster. 2002. Range extensions of sacoglossan and nudibranch mollusks (Gastropoda : Opisthobranchia) to Alaska. Veliger 45(4):331-336.
External links
[edit]- 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. 204 (4).
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