Micromelo undatus

Micromelo undatus (Bruguière, 1792)

Micromelo undatus @ Gran Canaria by Aketza Herrero

Taxonomy

	Superdomain	Biota
	Kingdom	Animalia
	Phylum	Mollusca
	Class	Gastropoda
	Subclass	Heterobranchia
	Infraclass	Euthyneura
	Subterclass	Acteonimorpha
	Superfamily	Acteonoidea
	Family	Aplustridae
	Genus	Micromelo
	Species	Micromelo undatus (Bruguière, 1792)

	Classification according to Bouchet et al. (2017) Taxonomic source: World Register of Marine Species (AphiaID: 140121).

Synonyms

Bulla elegans Menke, 1830
Bulla nitidula Dillwyn, 1817
Bulla undata Bruguière, 1792
Micromelo undata [sic]

Description

Biology

Etymology

Undatus, from Latin “undatus”, wavy, ripply.

Distribution

Known georeferenced records of the species: Micromelo undatus
Sources:
: OBIS : GROC 2010-2011 : Enric Madrenas : João Pedro Silva : Bernard Picton : GBIF.ORG	: OPK : VIMAR : Manuel Ballesteros. : M@re Nostrum : Altres fonts : Marine Regions

References for the species: Micromelo undatus

Canarias: Nordsieck (1972), Nordsieck and García-Talavera (1979), Ortea et al. (2001), Moro et al. (2003), Wirtz and Debelius (2003). Azores: Nordsieck (1972), García-Talavera (1983), Mikkelsen (1995), Malaquias (2001), Wirtz and Debelius (2003).

Sources: Cervera et al., 2004, Ballesteros, 2007 & 2016, McDonald, 2006 and other sources.

Abundance

Western Mediterranean:
Eastern Mediterranean:
Atlantic Ocean:

More pictures

Micromelo undatus @ Gran Canaria by Aketza Herrero

Bibliography

Bibliography based on the works by Steve Long, 2006. Bibliography of Opisthobranchia 1554-2000 and Gary McDonald, 2009. Bibliographia Nudibranchia, with later updates from other resources.

Further reading

Cite this article as:

Ballesteros, Manuel, Enric Madrenas, Miquel Pontes (2012-2018) "Micromelo undatus" in OPK-Opistobranquis, Published: 20/02/2015, Accessed: 21/08/2018 at (https://opistobranquis.info/en/BmPNu)

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