| Dendronotus lacteus | |
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| The nudibranch Dendronotus lacteus, Eilean Dubh Beag, Firth of Lorne, Scotland. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Suborder: | Cladobranchia |
| Family: | Dendronotidae |
| Genus: | Dendronotus |
| Species: | D. lacteus |
| Binomial name | |
| Dendronotus lacteus (W. Thompson, 1840) | |
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Dendronotus lacteus is a species of sea slug, a dendronotid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dendronotidae.
Distribution
This species was described from a specimen collected at the entrance to Strangford Lough, Northern Ireland, Irish Sea. It was long considered to be a synonym of Dendronotus frondosus but separated by Thollesson in 2000 using the technique of allozyme electrophoresis. This was confirmed with DNA sequencing in 2015. The species is known from the Irish Sea north to Spitsbergen, Franz Josef Land, and the Barents Sea.
References
- Thompson, William. (1840). Contributions towards a knowledge of the Mollusca Nudibranchia and Mollusca Tunicata of Ireland, with descriptions of some apparently new species of Invertebrata. Annals & Magazine of Natural History 5(29):84-102, pl. 2.
- Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2015). Dendronotus lacteus. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-02-06.
- Thollesson, Mikael. 1998. Discrimination of two Dendronotus species by allozyme electrophoresis and the reinstatement of Dendronotus lacteus (Thompson, 1840) (Nudibranchia, Dendronotoidea). Zoologica Scripta 27(3):189-195.
- ^ Ekimova, I.; Korshunova, T.; Schepetov, D.; Neretina, T.; Sanamyan, N.; Martynov, A. (2015). Integrative systematics of northern and Arctic nudibranchs of the genus Dendronotus (Mollusca, Gastropoda), with descriptions of three new species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 173(4): 841-886.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Dendronotus lacteus | |