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Taxonomy
Family:
DISCODORIDIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Ringipleura (Subterclass)
> Nudipleura (Superorder)
> Nudibranchia (Order)
> Doridina (Suborder)
> Doridoidei (Infraorder)
> Doridoidea (Superfamily)
> Discodorididae (Family)
> Rostanga (Genus)
> muscula (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Boreodoris Odhner, 1939
=Rhabdochila P. Fischer, 1883
Synonymised Names:
=Doris muscula Abraham, 1877
=Doris rubicunda Cheeseman, 1881
Images: Rostanga muscula (Abraham, 1877)
At low tide in shallow rock pools, Far North, NZ. 15mm. © rights reserved
Taxonomy
Family:
DISCODORIDIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Ringipleura (Subterclass)
> Nudipleura (Superorder)
> Nudibranchia (Order)
> Doridina (Suborder)
> Doridoidei (Infraorder)
> Doridoidea (Superfamily)
> Discodorididae (Family)
> Rostanga (Genus)
> muscula (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Boreodoris Odhner, 1939
=Rhabdochila P. Fischer, 1883
Synonymised Names:
=Doris muscula Abraham, 1877
=Doris rubicunda Cheeseman, 1881
Details: Rostanga muscula (Abraham, 1877)
Size/Grows to:
Animal 21mm
Distribution:
North Island. Northland to Auckland
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic, On rocks and in low-tidal pools
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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.66)
  • Rudman, W.B. 1988 The Chromodorididae (Opisthobranchia: Mollusca) of the Indo-west Pacific: the genus Ceratosoma J.E. Gray, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 93(2) (p.305)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.285)

NZ Geographical Regions
Key to symbols used in Checklist.
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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