''Aiteng mysticus'' is a
species
A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...
of
sea slug
Sea slug is a common name for some Marine biology, marine invertebrates with varying levels of resemblance to terrestrial Slug, slugs. Most creatures known as sea slugs are gastropods, i.e. they are Sea snail, sea snails (marine gastropod moll ...
in the family
Aitengidae
''Aiteng'' is a genus comprising three species of sea slug, ''A. ater'' and ''A. mysticus'' being found in intertidal zones while ''A. marefugitus'' is fully terrestrial. ''Aiteng'' is the only genus in the family Aitengidae. The name of a biolog ...
,
found around
Hisamatsu,
Miyako-jima
is the largest and the most populous island among the Miyako Islands of Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. Miyako Island is administered as part of the City of Miyako Island, which includes not only Miyako Island, but also five other islands.
Geogr ...
,
Okinawa
most commonly refers to:
* Okinawa Prefecture, Japan's southernmost prefecture
* Okinawa Island, the largest island of Okinawa Prefecture
* Okinawa Islands, an island group including Okinawa itself
* Okinawa (city), the second largest city in th ...
, Japan.
Morphologically it clearly belongs to the Aitengidae, but it shows differences to ''
Aiteng ater
''Aiteng ater'' is a species of sea slug, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Aitengidae. The specific name ''ater'' is from the Latin language and means black, in reference to the appearance of the slug on the mud.
''Aiteng ater'' was cho ...
'' at genus or species level.
Its affinity to ''Aiteng ater'' is confirmed by comparison of the mitochondrial
16S rRNA
16S ribosomal RNA (or 16Svedberg, S rRNA) is the RNA component of the 30S subunit of a prokaryotic ribosome (SSU rRNA). It binds to the Shine-Dalgarno sequence and provides most of the SSU structure.
The genes coding for it are referred to as ...
sequences.
References
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