Notaeolidia gigas

Notaeolidia gigas
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia; clade Euthyneura; clade Nudipleura; clade Nudibranchia; clade Dexiarchia ; clade Cladobranchia; clade Aeolidida
Superfamily:	Flabellinoidea
Family:	Notaeolidiidae
Genus:	Notaeolidia
Species:	N. gigas
Binomial name
	Notaeolidia gigas; (Eliot, 1905)

Notaeolidia gigas is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Notaeolidiidae.^[2]

Distribution

This species was described from McMurdo Bay, Ross Sea, Antarctica. It has been reported from a number of Antarctic localities at depths of 3–50 m.^[3] ^[4]

References

^ Eliot, C. N. E. 1905. The Nudibranchiata of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 41(3) No. 22, pp. 519-532.
^ Rosenberg, G. (2014). Notaeolidia gigas. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=533179 on 2015-02-13
^ Wägele, H. 1990. Revision of the Antarctic genus Notaeolidia (Gastropoda, Nudibranchia), with a description of a new species. Zoologica Scripta 19(3): 309-330. [July 1990]
^ Rudman, W.B., 1999 (February 10) Notaeolidia gigas Eliot, 1905. [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.

[1] Eliot, C. N. E. 1905. The Nudibranchiata of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 41(3) No. 22, pp. 519-532.

[2] Rosenberg, G. (2014). Notaeolidia gigas. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=533179 on 2015-02-13

[3] Wägele, H. 1990. Revision of the Antarctic genus Notaeolidia (Gastropoda, Nudibranchia), with a description of a new species. Zoologica Scripta 19(3): 309-330. [July 1990]

[4] Rudman, W.B., 1999 (February 10) Notaeolidia gigas Eliot, 1905. [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.