''Eubranchus glacialis'' is a
species of
sea slug or
nudibranch, a
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 ...
mollusc
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in the
family Eubranchidae.
Distribution
This species was described from the Gauss-Station,
Davis Sea
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,
Antarctica.
It has been reported from
McMurdo Sound.
[Valdés Á., Moran A.L. & Woods H.A. (2012]
''Revision of several poorly known Antarctic aeolid nudibranch species (Mollusca: Gastropoda), with the description of a new species.''
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 92(5): 1161-1174.
References
Eubranchidae
Gastropods described in 1912
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