''Pleurobranchaea meckeli'' is a
species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...
of
sea slug
Sea slug is a common name for some marine invertebrates with varying levels of resemblance to terrestrial slugs. Most creatures known as sea slugs are gastropods, i.e. they are sea snails (marine gastropod mollusks) that over evolutionary time ...
, specifically a side gill slug or
notaspidea
Notaspidea, also known as the sidegill slugs, is an artificial grouping of sea slugs which is now split into two unrelated groups, the Umbraculida and the Pleurobranchomorpha.
Taxonomic history
Notaspidea, also known as the sidegill slugs, was a ...
ns. It is a
marine gastropod mollusc in the family
Pleurobranchaeidae.
Description
The length of the body attains ,
Distribution
This marine species occurs in the
Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the ...
and in the North Atlantic Ocean off
Cape Verde and
Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of ...
.
References
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Pleurobranchaeidae
Gastropods described in 1813
Molluscs of the Atlantic Ocean
Molluscs of the Mediterranean Sea
Molluscs of Europe
Gastropods of Cape Verde