''Duvaucelia lineata'' is a
species of
dendronotid nudibranch. It is a
marine
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gastropod
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mollusc
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in the
family Tritoniidae.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2020)]
MolluscaBase. ''Duvaucelia lineata'' (Alder & Hancock, 1848).
Accessed on 2021-01-01. Previously known as ''Tritonia lineata this species was moved to the genus ''Duvaucelia in 2020.
Description
''Duvaucelia lineata'' was originally discovered in 1846 and described by British
malacologists
Joshua Alder and
Albany Hancock in 1848.
The original text (the
type description
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) reads as follows:
Distribution
The
type locality
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is
Scarborough, North Yorkshire
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,
England.
''Duvaucelia lineata'' is found at scattered localities on the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland and in southern Norway and Brittany, France. It has also been reported from the Adriatic Sea, Croatia.
[Frijsinger, A.H.T., 2007 (Jul 18]
''Tritonia lineata'' from Adriatic.
essage in/nowiki> Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
References
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Tritoniidae
Gastropods described in 1848