''Duvaucelia lineata'' is a

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of dendronotid nudibranch. It is a

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in the

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Tritoniidae Tritoniidae is a taxonomic family of nudibranchs in the suborder Cladobranchia, shell-less marine gastropod molluscs.MolluscaBase (2018)Tritoniidae Lamarck, 1809.Accessed on 2021-01-01 This family includes some of the largest known nudibranchs, ...

.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 Joshua Alder (7 April 1792 – 21 January 1867) was a British cheese, cheesemonger and amateur zoologist and malacologist. As such, he specialized in the Tunicata, and in gastropods. He was a member of the Hancock Museum, Natural History Societ ...

and Albany Hancock in 1848. The original text (the

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) reads as follows:

Distribution

The type locality is

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. ''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

This article incorporates public domain text from reference. {{DEFAULTSORT:Duvaucelia Lineata Tritoniidae Gastropods described in 1848