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Taxonomy
Family:
DISCODORIDIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Ringipleura (Subterclass)
> Nudipleura (Superorder)
> Nudibranchia (Order)
> Doridina (Suborder)
> Doridoidei (Infraorder)
> Doridoidea (Superfamily)
> Discodorididae (Family)
> Rostanga (Genus)
> muscula (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Boreodoris Odhner, 1939
=Rhabdochila P. Fischer, 1883
Synonymised Names:
=Doris muscula Abraham, 1877
=Doris rubicunda Cheeseman, 1881
Images: Rostanga muscula (Abraham, 1877)
At low tide in shallow rock pools, Far North, NZ. 15mm
Taxonomy
Family:
DISCODORIDIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Ringipleura (Subterclass)
> Nudipleura (Superorder)
> Nudibranchia (Order)
> Doridina (Suborder)
> Doridoidei (Infraorder)
> Doridoidea (Superfamily)
> Discodorididae (Family)
> Rostanga (Genus)
> muscula (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Boreodoris Odhner, 1939
=Rhabdochila P. Fischer, 1883
Synonymised Names:
=Doris muscula Abraham, 1877
=Doris rubicunda Cheeseman, 1881
Details: Rostanga muscula (Abraham, 1877)
Size/Grows to:
Animal 21mm
Distribution:
North Island. Northland to Auckland
Geographical Range:
A
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic, On rocks and in low-tidal pools
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Morley, M.S., Hayward, B.W. 2015 Intertidal records of 'sea slugs' (nudibranchs and allied opisthobranch gastropods) from northern North Island, New Zealand, Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 50 (p.66)
  • Rudman, W.B. 1988 The Chromodorididae (Opisthobranchia: Mollusca) of the Indo-west Pacific: the genus Ceratosoma J.E. Gray, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 93(2) (p.305)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.285)

Key to Geographical Ranges
NZ Map showing Geographical Ranges
The symbols K.A.C.F.M.An. are used to indicate the geographical range of the species. They have been adopted to give an approximation of the range of each species within New Zealand.
K=
Kermadec Islands
A=
Aupourian - Kaipara Harbour, north around North Cape, encompassing the Three Kings Islands and south to East Cape
C=
Cookian - Lower North Island and the northern part of the South Island
F=
Forsterian - Otago, Fiordland and Stewart Island
M=
Moriorian - Chatham Islands, Pitt Island
An=
Antipodean - Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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