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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
POLYCERIDAE: TRIOPHINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Ringipleura (Subterclass)
> Nudipleura (Superorder)
> Nudibranchia (Order)
> Doridina (Suborder)
> Doridoidei (Infraorder)
> Polyceroidea (Superfamily)
> Polyceridae (Family)
> Triophinae (Subfamily)
> Plocamopherus (Genus)
> imperialis (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Histiophorus Pease, 1860
=Peplidia R.T. Lowe, 1842
Synonymised Names:
=Plocamopherus naeavatus Abraham, 1876
Images: Plocamopherus imperialis Angas, 1864
Llow tide on Zostera Flats, Parengarenga Harbour, Far North, NZ
Llow tide on Zostera Flats, Parengarenga Harbour, Far North, NZ
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
POLYCERIDAE: TRIOPHINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Ringipleura (Subterclass)
> Nudipleura (Superorder)
> Nudibranchia (Order)
> Doridina (Suborder)
> Doridoidei (Infraorder)
> Polyceroidea (Superfamily)
> Polyceridae (Family)
> Triophinae (Subfamily)
> Plocamopherus (Genus)
> imperialis (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Histiophorus Pease, 1860
=Peplidia R.T. Lowe, 1842
Synonymised Names:
=Plocamopherus naeavatus Abraham, 1876
Details: Plocamopherus imperialis Angas, 1864
Size/Grows to:
Animal 45mm
Distribution:
Far North
Geographical Range:
AE.
Notes:
Marine, Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Morley, M.S., Hayward, B.W. 2015 Intertidal records of 'sea slugs' (nudibranchs and allied opisthobranch gastropods) from northern North Island, New Zealand, Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 50 (p.70)
  • Morley, M.S. Oct/1996 Plocamophorus imperialis (Angas, 1864) (Nudibranchia: Polyceridae: Triophinae), Poirieria, 19 (p.26)
  • Willan, R.C., Coleman, N. 1984 Nudibranchs of Australasia, Neville Coleman's Australasian Marine Photographic Index, Sydney (p.10)

Key to Geographical Ranges
NZ Map showing Geographical Ranges
The symbols K.A.C.F.M.An. are used to indicate the geographical range of the species. They have been adopted to give an approximation of the range of each species within New Zealand.
K=
Kermadec Islands
A=
Aupourian - Kaipara Harbour, north around North Cape, encompassing the Three Kings Islands and south to East Cape
C=
Cookian - Lower North Island and the northern part of the South Island
F=
Forsterian - Otago, Fiordland and Stewart Island
M=
Moriorian - Chatham Islands, Pitt Island
An=
Antipodean - Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
E =
Endemic
I =
Introduced
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil