''Verconia purpurea'' is a
species of colourful
sea slug, 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 in the family
Chromodorididae.
[Bieler, R. (2015). Verconia purpurea (Baba, 1949). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=866661 on 2016-01-13] It was first described in 1949 by
Kikutaro Baba as ''Noumea purpurea''.
[Baba, K. 1949. ''Opisthobranchia of Sagami Bay collected by His Majesty the Emperor of Japan''. Tokyo : Iwanami Shoten 194 pp. 5, 144-145/ref>
The length of the body attains 20 mm.
]
Distribution
This marine species occurs off subtropical Japan.
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Chromodorididae
Gastropods described in 1949
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