''Doriprismatica kulonba'' is a
species
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of
sea slug
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, a dorid
nudibranch, a shell-less
marine
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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 ...
mollusk
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in the family
Chromodorididae.
[MolluscaBase (2018)]
''Doriprismatica kulonba'' (Burn, 1966).
Accessed on 2019-01-31. This species was found to belong in a clade with ''
Doriprismatica atromarginata
''Doriprismatica atromarginata'' is a species of sea slug. It is a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chromodorididae.MolluscaBase (2018)''Doriprismatica atromarginata'' (Cuvier, 1804).Accessed on 2018-12-25.
...
'' in a molecular phylogeny study.
Distribution
This species is known only from southeastern Australian,
Victoria and Northern
Tasmania
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.
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.
[Debelius, H. & Kuiter, R.H. (2007) ''Nudibranchs of the world.'' ConchBooks, Frankfurt, 360 pp. page(s): 206]
Ecology
References
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Chromodorididae
Gastropods described in 1966