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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
POLYCERIDAE: POLYCERINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Ringipleura (Subterclass)
> Nudipleura (Superorder)
> Nudibranchia (Order)
> Doridina (Suborder)
> Doridoidei (Infraorder)
> Polyceroidea (Superfamily)
> Polyceridae (Family)
> Polycerinae (Subfamily)
> Polycera (Genus)
> maddoxi (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Galacera Risso-Dominguez, 1960
=Polyceras Locard, 1886
Images: Polycera maddoxi M.C. Miller, 2005
Holotype, collected 5 August 1997, jetty piling on breakwater, Port Taranaki, New Plymouth, NZ (M.174781). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
POLYCERIDAE: POLYCERINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Ringipleura (Subterclass)
> Nudipleura (Superorder)
> Nudibranchia (Order)
> Doridina (Suborder)
> Doridoidei (Infraorder)
> Polyceroidea (Superfamily)
> Polyceridae (Family)
> Polycerinae (Subfamily)
> Polycera (Genus)
> maddoxi (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Galacera Risso-Dominguez, 1960
=Polyceras Locard, 1886
Details: Polycera maddoxi M.C. Miller, 2005
Distribution:
Port Taranaki, New Plymouth and Dusky Sound, Fiordland
Type Data:
  • Port Taranaki, New Plymouth, NZ, (holotype)
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
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References and Publications
  • Miller, M.C. 1996 A new species of the dorid nudibranch genus Polycera Cuvier, 1817 (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia) from New Zealand, Journal of Molluscan Studies, 62 (p.445)

NZ Geographical Regions
Key to symbols used in Checklist.
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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