''Peltodoris punctifera'' 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), ...

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 ...

, a dorid

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, shell-less marine

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s in the family

Discodorididae Discodorididae is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic family (biology), family of sea slugs, specifically dorid nudibranchs, marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Doridoidea.Bouchet, P. (2011). Discodorididae. Accessed through: ...

.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=78278Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2015). Peltodoris punctifera (Abraham, 1877). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=139571 on 2015-11-20

Distribution

This marine species occurs in European waters.

References

Abraham P. (1877), ''Revision of the anthobranchiate nudibranchiate Mollusca with descriptions or notices of forty-one hitherto undescribed species''. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1877: 196-269, pl. 28-30

Ortea J. & Bacallado J.J. (1981). ''Les Dorididae (Gastropoda) décrits des Canaries par Alcide d'Orbigny''. Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. (4)3, section A, 3: 575-584

Dayrat B. 2010. ''A monographic revision of discodorid sea slugs (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia, Nudibranchia, Doridina)''. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Series 4, vol. 61, suppl. I, 1-403, 382 figs.
Discodorididae Gastropods described in 1877 {{Discodorididae-stub