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Doris Viridis
''Doris viridis'' is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Dorididae.Bouchet, P. (2016)''Doris viridis'' (Pease, 1861).In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-12-05. Distribution This species was described from Tahiti. It has been reported from the Hawaiian Islands and Red Beach, Hontou (East coast), Okinawa, Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ....201''Doris viridis'' Pease, 1861SeaSlug World. References {{Taxonbar, from=Q28432528 Dorididae Gastropods described in 1861 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Harper Pease
William Harper Pease (1824–1871) was a 19th-century American conchologist, shell collector and malacologist. He described many species of Indo-Pacific marine mollusks from the Cuming collection. He moved in 1849 to Honolulu Honolulu (; ) is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Hawaii, which is in the Pacific Ocean. It is an unincorporated county seat of the consolidated City and County of Honolulu, situated along the southeast coast of the island ..., from where he continued his research One of the genera he described and named was the sea slug genus: '' Philinopsis'' Pease, 1860 Several species were named in his honor : '' Favartia peasei'' (Tryon, 1880), '' Conus peasei'' J. Brazier, 1877, ''Amygdalum peasei'' W. Newcomb, 1870 and '' Hypselodoris peasei'' (Bergh, 1880) For many years, no image of Pease was known, until a 2021 paper revealed that two (one shown above) had been discovered in the Bishop Museum Archives, Honolulu. Bibliography * P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |