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Taxonomy
Family:
FASCELINIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Ringipleura (Subterclass)
> Nudipleura (Superorder)
> Nudibranchia (Order)
> Cladobranchia (Suborder)
> Aeolidioidea (Superfamily)
> Fascelinidae (Family)
> Jason (Genus)
> mirabilis (Species)
Images: Jason mirabilis M.C. Miller, 1974
From the Rainbow Warrior, Matauri Bay, Northland, NZ. 40mm
Taxonomy
Family:
FASCELINIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Ringipleura (Subterclass)
> Nudipleura (Superorder)
> Nudibranchia (Order)
> Cladobranchia (Suborder)
> Aeolidioidea (Superfamily)
> Fascelinidae (Family)
> Jason (Genus)
> mirabilis (Species)
Details: Jason mirabilis M.C. Miller, 1974
Size/Grows to:
Animal 50mm
Distribution:
Three Kings Islands to Fiordland
Geographical Range:
ACF
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Enderby, T. Oct/1995 New Nudibranchs in New Zealand or just visitors, Poirieria, 17(4)
  • Willan, R.C., Morton, J.E. 1984 Opisthobranchia, Marine Molluscs, University of Auckland, Leigh Marine Laboratory, 2 (p.75)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.290)
  • Miller, M.C. 1974 Aeolid nudibranchs (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia) of the family Glaucidae from New Zealand waters., Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 54(1) (p.49) Original Description

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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