''Atagema echinata'' is a species of sea slug or dorid nudibranch, a

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gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...

mollusc Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is esti ...

in the family Discodorididae.Bouchet, P. (2016)
''Atagema echinata (Pease, 1860).
In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-10-24.

Distribution

This species was described from the

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. It has also been reported from the

Mariana Islands The Mariana Islands (; also the Marianas; in Chamorro: ''Manislan Mariånas'') are a crescent-shaped archipelago comprising the summits of fifteen longitudinally oriented, mostly dormant volcanic mountains in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, betw ...

.Carlson C. & Hoff P.J. (2003)
The opisthobranchs of the Mariana Islands.
Micronesica. 35-36:271-293.

References

Discodorididae Gastropods described in 1860 {{Discodorididae-stub