Pleurobranchaea meckeli Pleurobranchaea meckeli

Pleurobranchaea meckeli, 2016

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AphiaID:: 140818

Scientific:: Pleurobranchaea meckeli
German:: Flankenkiemer
English:: Pleurobranchaea Meckeli

Category:: Nudibranchs

Family tree:: Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Pleurobranchida (Order) > Pleurobranchaeidae (Family) > Pleurobranchaea (Genus) > meckeli (Species)
Initial determination:: (Blainville, ), 1825

Occurrence:: North Atlantic Ocean, Portugal, the Cape Verde Archipelago, the Mediterranean Sea
Size:: up to 5.91" (15 cm)
Temperature:: °F - 77 °F (°C - 25°C)
Food:: Food specialist, Snails
Difficulty:: Experts only! Very hard to keep
Offspring:: None
Toxicity:: Toxic hazard unknown

CITES:

Not evaluated

Related species at Catalog of Life:

Pleurobranchaea agassizii
Pleurobranchaea augusta
Pleurobranchaea brockii
Gefleckter Flankenkiemer
Pleurobranchaea bubala
Warziger Flankenkiemer
Pleurobranchaea californica
Kalifornischer Flankenkiemer
Pleurobranchaea catherinae
Pleurobranchaea gela
Pleurobranchaea inconspicua
Pleurobranchaea japonica
Pleurobranchaea maculata
Graue Flankenkiemer-Schnecke, Gefleckte Flankenkiemer-Schnecke
Pleurobranchaea meckeli
Flankenkiemer
Pleurobranchaea morosa
Pleurobranchaea obesa
Pleurobranchaea spiroporphyra
Pleurobranchaea tarda
Zwerg Warzen-Flankenkiemer

Author:: Meerwasser-Lexikon Team
Publisher:: Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:: 2016-07-20 15:58:44
Last edit:: 2016-07-20 15:58:44

Info

Pleurobranchaea meckeli (de Blainville 1825)

Pleurobranchaea meckelii is a species of sea slug, specifically a side gill slug or notaspideans. ctendium present.It is a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pleurobranchaeidae.

Host of ectoprarasitic copepeod Anthessius pleurobrancheae.

Synonymised names:
Pleurobranchaea chiajei Locard, 1886 (Unjustified emendation of dellechiaii)
Pleurobranchaea dellechiaii Vérany, 1846
Pleurobranchaea notmec Ev. Marcus & Gosliner, 1984
Pleurobranchaea vayssierei Ev. Marcus & Gosliner, 1984
Pleurobranchidium meckeli Blainville, 1825 (original combination)

External links

Prof. Dr. Peter Witz - Medslugs (en) (Archive.org). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
Sea Slug Forum (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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Pleurobranchaea meckeli (c) by Prof. Dr. Peter Wirtz

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