Galvinella antarctica

Galvinella antarctica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Aeolidacea
Family: Eubranchidae
Genus: Galvinella
Species:
G. antarctica
Binomial name
Galvinella antarctica
(Eliot, 1907)
Synonyms
  • Cuthona elioti Odhner, 1944
  • Cuthonella antarctica Eliot, 1907
  • Cuthonella elioti Odhner, 1944

Galvinella antarctica is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Eubranchidae.

Distribution

This species was described from Winter Quarters Bay, Ross Sea, Antarctica. It has been found on several occasions in McMurdo Sound, Ross Sea, Antarctica 77°51′02.31″S 166°39′56.07″E / 77.8506417°S 166.6655750°E / -77.8506417; 166.6655750.

References

  1. ↑ Eliot, C. N. E. (1907). Mollusca. IV. Nudibranchiata. National Antarctic Expedition 1901-1904. Natural History 2, Mollusca, IV:1-28, 1 pl.p.23.
  2. ↑ Korshunova T.; Fletcher K.; Martynov A. (2025). The endless forms are the most differentiated—how taxonomic pseudo-optimization masked natural diversity and evolution: the nudibranch case Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Volume 204, Issue 4, August 2025, zlaf057,
  3. ↑ Valdés Á., Moran A.L. & Woods H.A. (2012). Revision of several poorly known Antarctic aeolid nudibranch species (Mollusca: Gastropoda), with the description of a new species. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 92(5): 1161-1174.