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Melibe viridis

Melibe viridis
Melibe mirifica.jpg
Melibe viridis, anterior end at the front with the large rounded oral hood
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Dexiarchia
clade Cladobranchia
clade Dendronotida
Superfamily: Tritonioidea
Family: Tethydidae
Genus: Melibe
Species: M. viridis
Binomial name
Melibe viridis
(Kelaart, 1858)
Synonyms
  • Melibe fimbriata Alder & Hancock, 1864
  • Melibe rangi Bergh, 1875
  • Melibe vexillifera Bergh, 1880
  • Propomelibe mirifica Allan, 1932
  • Melibe mirifica (Allan, 1932)
  •  ? Melibe japonica Eliot, 1913

Melibe viridis is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tethydidae.

This species occurs in the Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea, off Mozambique and off Indonesia.

The body reaches a length of 140 mm.



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