Doriprismatica kulonba

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Doriprismatica kulonba is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chromodorididae.[2] This species was found to belong in a clade with Doriprismatica atromarginata in a molecular phylogeny study.[3]

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Doriprismatica kulonba
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Family: Chromodorididae
Genus: Doriprismatica
Species:
D. kulonba
Binomial name
Doriprismatica kulonba
(Burn, 1966)[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Digidentis kulonba (Burn, 1966)
  • Glossodoris kulonba (Burn, 1966)
  • Hypselodoris kulonba Burn, 1966 (basionym)
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Distribution

This species is known only from southeastern Australian, Victoria and Northern Tasmania.[4][5][6]

Description

Doriprismatica kulonba has a wide mantle overlap and very convoluted mantle margin. It is entirely white in colour apart from a thin band of milky yellow at the edge of the mantle and foot.[7][8][9][10]

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