Mourgona borgninii

Mourgona borgninii (Trinchese, 1896)

Mourgona borgninii 4mm @ Playa de la Laja, Gran Canaria, Spain 1m 6.05.2018 by Alberto Navarro

Taxonomy

	Superdomain	Biota
	Kingdom	Animalia
	Phylum	Mollusca
	Class	Gastropoda
	Subclass	Heterobranchia
	Infraclass	Euthyneura
	Subterclass	Tectipleura
	Superorder	Sacoglossa
	Superfamily	Plakobranchoidea
	Family	Hermaeidae
	Genus	Mourgona
	Species	Mourgona borgninii (Trinchese, 1896)

	Classification according to Bouchet et al. (2017) Taxonomic source: World Register of Marine Species (AphiaID: 1263843).

Synonyms

Phyllobranchus borgninii Trinchese, 1896
Polybranchia borgninii (Trinchese, 1896)
Jenseneria borgninii (Trinchese, 1896)

Description

Biology

Etymology

Mourgona. Genus proposed by Marcus & Marcus (1970) of unknown origin.
Borgninii. Probably dedicated to Giuseppe Borgnini (1824–1911) an Italian politician. He was a senator of the Kingdom of Italy in the sixteenth legislature.

Distribution

Known georeferenced records of the species: Mourgona borgninii
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

Abundance

Western Mediterranean:
Eastern Mediterranean:
Atlantic Ocean:

More pictures

Mourgona borgninii 12mm @ Qalet Marku, Malta 1m depth 31-03-1994 by Carmel Sammut

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) "Mourgona borgninii" in OPK-Opistobranquis, Published: 11/09/2014, Accessed: 17/12/2018 at (https://opistobranquis.info/en/z41dO)

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Mourgona borgninii