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Pleurobranchaea meckelii

Pleurobranchaea meckelii
Pleurobranchaea meckelii.jpg
A lateral view of a live Pleurobranchaea meckelii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Pleurobranchomorpha
Superfamily: Pleurobranchoidea
Family: Pleurobranchaeidae
Genus: Pleurobranchaea
Species: P. meckelii
Binomial name
Pleurobranchaea meckelii
Leue, 1813
Synonyms
  • 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)

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.

The length of the body attains 150 mm.

This marine species occurs in the Mediterranean Sea and in the North Atlantic Ocean off the Cape Verdes and Portugal.


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