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Proctonotidae
Proctonotidae is a family of sea slugs, nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs, in the clade Euthyneura.MolluscaBase (2018)Proctonotidae Gray, 1853.Accessed on 2020-10-20. Genera Genera in the family Proctonotidae include: * ''Caldukia ''Caldukia'' is a genus of sea slugs, or more accurately nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs, in the family Proctonotidae. One species, ''Caldukia affinis'', is known to occur in Victoria, Australia, while the other two species are endemic t ...'' Burn and Miller, 1969 * '' Proctonotus'' Alder, 1844 ;Genera brought into synonymy: * ''Venilia'' Alder & Hancock, 1844: synonym of ''Proctonotua'' Alder & Hancock, 1844 * ''Zephyrina'' Quatrefages, 1844: synonym of ''Proctonotus'' Alder & Hancock, 1844 References * Vaught, K.C. (1989). ''A classification of the living Mollusca''. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). . XII, 195 pp {{Taxonbar, from=Q3198665 Taxa named by John Edward Gray ...
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Proctonotus
''Proctonotus'' is a genus of sea slugs, or more accurately nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Proctonotidae.WoRMS (2011). Proctonotus Alder & Hancock, 1844. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138380 on 2011-04-12 Species Species in the genus ''Proctonotus'' include: * '' Proctonotus mucroniferus'' (Alder & Hancock, 1844) ;Species brought into synonymy : * ''Proctonotus affinis'' Burn, 1958: synonym of '' Caldukia affinis'' (Burn, 1958) * ''Proctonotus orientalis'' Kelaart, 1858 : synonym of ''Polybranchia orientalis ''Polybranchia orientalis'' is a species of sacoglossan sea slug, a shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Caliphyllidae.Bouchet, P. (2011). Polybranchia orientalis (Kelaart, 1858). Accessed through: World Register of ...'' (Kelaart, 1858) References * http://www.seaslugforum.net/ accessed 10 November 2009 * Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet ...
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Caldukia
''Caldukia'' is a genus of sea slugs, or more accurately nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs, in the family Proctonotidae. One species, ''Caldukia affinis'', is known to occur in Victoria, Australia, while the other two species are endemic to New Zealand. Species Species in the genus ''Caldukia'' include: * ''Caldukia affinis ''Caldukia'' is a genus of sea slugs, or more accurately nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs, in the family Proctonotidae. One species, '' Caldukia affinis'', is known to occur in Victoria, Australia, while the other two species are endemic to ...'' (Burn, 1958)Burn, R. (1958) Further Victorian Opisthobranchia. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 1(2): 20-36. * '' Caldukia albolineata'' Miller, 1970Miller, M.C. 1970. Two new species of the genus ''Caldukia'' Burn & Miller, 1969 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia) from New Zealand waters. ''The Veliger'', 12(3): 275-289. * '' Caldukia rubiginosa'' Miller, 1970 References * Miller ...
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Nudibranch
Nudibranchs () are a group of soft-bodied marine gastropod molluscs which shed their shells after their larval stage. They are noted for their often extraordinary colours and striking forms, and they have been given colourful nicknames to match, such as "clown", "marigold", "splendid", "dancer", "dragon", or "sea rabbit". Currently, about 3,000 valid species of nudibranchs are known.Ocean Portal (2017)A Collage of Nudibranch Colors Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 17 April 2018. The word "nudibranch" comes from the Latin "naked" and the Ancient Greek () " gills". Nudibranchs are often casually called sea slugs, as they are a family of opistobranchs (sea slugs), within the phylum Mollusca (molluscs), but many sea slugs belong to several taxonomic groups which are not closely related to nudibranchs. A number of these other sea slugs, such as the photosynthetic '' Sacoglossa'' and the colourful Aglajidae, are often confused with nudibranchs. Dist ...
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John Edward Gray
John Edward Gray, Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (12 February 1800 – 7 March 1875) was a British zoology, zoologist. He was the elder brother of zoologist George Robert Gray and son of the pharmacologist and botanist Samuel Frederick Gray (1766–1828). The same is used for a zoological name. Gray was Keeper of Zoology, keeper of zoology at the British Museum in London from 1840 until Christmas 1874, before the natural history holdings were split off to the Natural History Museum, London, Natural History Museum. He published several catalogues of the museum collections that included comprehensive discussions of animal groups and descriptions of new species. He improved the Zoological specimens, zoological collections to make them amongst the best in the world. Biography Gray was born in Walsall, but his family soon moved to London, where Gray studied medicine. He assisted his father in writing ''The Natural Arrangement of British Plants'' (1821). After being Blackballing, ...
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Family (biology)
Family ( la, familia, plural ') is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy. It is classified between order and genus. A family may be divided into subfamilies, which are intermediate ranks between the ranks of family and genus. The official family names are Latin in origin; however, popular names are often used: for example, walnut trees and hickory trees belong to the family Juglandaceae, but that family is commonly referred to as the "walnut family". What belongs to a family—or if a described family should be recognized at all—are proposed and determined by practicing taxonomists. There are no hard rules for describing or recognizing a family, but in plants, they can be characterized on the basis of both vegetative and reproductive features of plant species. Taxonomists often take different positions about descriptions, and there may be no broad consensus across the scientific community for some time. The publishing of new data and opi ...
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Marine (ocean)
The ocean (also the sea or the world ocean) is the body of salt water that covers approximately 70.8% of the surface of Earth and contains 97% of Earth's water. An ocean can also refer to any of the large bodies of water into which the world ocean is conventionally divided."Ocean."
''Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary'', Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ocean. Accessed March 14, 2021.
Separate names are used to identify five different areas of the ocean: Pacific (the largest), Atlantic, Indian, < ...