''Halgerda tessellata'' is a
species of
sea slug, a dorid
nudibranch, shell-less
marine
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gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusks in the family
Discodorididae.
[Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (Ed.); Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdes A. & Warén A. 2005. ''Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families''. Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology, 47(1-2). ConchBooks: Hackenheim, Germany. . ISSN 0076-2997. 397 pp. http://www.vliz.be/Vmdcdata/imis2/ref.php?refid=78278][WoRMS (2010). ''Halgerda tessellata'' (Bergh, 1880). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=221080 on 2011-08-24]
Distribution
This species was described from
Palau. It occurs from the western shores of the Indian Ocean in
Kenya,
Tanzania and
Madagascar to SE Australia and the
Mariana Islands
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, Pacific Ocean.
[Rudman, W.B. (1978). ''The dorid opisthobranch genera ''Halgerda'' Bergh and ''Sclerodoris'' Eliot from the Indo-West Pacific''. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 62: 59-88]
References
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Discodorididae
Gastropods described in 1880