Thordisa Lurca
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- GENUS
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Mollusca
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Nudibranchia
- family
- Discodorididae
- genus
- Thordisa
discussion
Remarks This species was described on the basis of a single specimen collected from a depth of 67 - 69 m, characterized by a dull orange background colour, with cream papillae and the gill and rhinophores dull brown. No more specimens have been assigned to this species since then. The holotype was dissected and no information on the internal anatomy was obtained.
materials_examined
Type material HOLOTYPE (by monotypy): Off the Caribbean coast of Colombia and Panama, 67 – 69 m depth, 14 mm long, leg. F. M. Bayer (USNM 679055).
Name
- Homonyms
- Thordisa Bergh, 1877
- Thordisa Lurca