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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CHROMODORIDIDAE: MIAMIRINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Ringipleura (Subterclass)
> Nudipleura (Superorder)
> Nudibranchia (Order)
> Doridina (Suborder)
> Doridoidei (Infraorder)
> Chromodoridoidea (Superfamily)
> Chromodorididae (Family)
> Miamirinae (Subfamily)
> Hypselodoris (Genus)
> kaname (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Brachychlanis Ehrenberg, 1831
=Jeanrisbecia Franc, 1968
=Pterodoris Ehrenberg, 1831
=Risbecia Odhner, 1934
Synonymised Names:
=Hypselodoris koumacensis Rudman, 1995
Images: Hypselodoris kaname Baba, 1994
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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CHROMODORIDIDAE: MIAMIRINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Ringipleura (Subterclass)
> Nudipleura (Superorder)
> Nudibranchia (Order)
> Doridina (Suborder)
> Doridoidei (Infraorder)
> Chromodoridoidea (Superfamily)
> Chromodorididae (Family)
> Miamirinae (Subfamily)
> Hypselodoris (Genus)
> kaname (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Brachychlanis Ehrenberg, 1831
=Jeanrisbecia Franc, 1968
=Pterodoris Ehrenberg, 1831
=Risbecia Odhner, 1934
Synonymised Names:
=Hypselodoris koumacensis Rudman, 1995
Details: Hypselodoris kaname Baba, 1994
Size/Grows to:
Animal 50mm
Distribution:
Poor Knights Islands, Northland
Geographical Range:
A
Notes:
Marine
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Johnson, R.F., Gosliner, T.M. 2012 Traditional taxonomic groupings mask evolutionary history: A molecular phylogeny and new classification of the Chromodorid Nudibranchs, PLoS ONE, 7(4) (p.10)
  • Baba, K. 1994 Descriptions of four new, rare or unrecorded species of Hypselodoris (Nudibranchia: Chromodorididae) from Japan., Venus, 53 (p.175) 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