Aegires punctilucens
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| Aegires punctilucens | |
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| The nudibranch Aegires punctilucens, Strangford Lough, Co Down, Northern Ireland. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Superfamily: | Polyceroidea |
| Family: | Aegiridae |
| Genus: | Aegires |
| Species: | A. punctilucens |
| Binomial name | |
| Aegires punctilucens | |
Aegires punctilucens is a species of sea slug. It is a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Aegiridae.[2]
This species was described from Brest, Brittany, France. It has been reported from the NE Atlantic from Norway, Great Britain and Ireland from Shetland south to Cornwall and from Northern France, Portugal and Spain to Greece in the Mediterranean Sea.[3] Reports from Japan and Australia are likely to be cryptic species.[4]
Description
The maximum recorded body length is 12 mm.[5]