Aplysia dura

Aplysia dura
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Aplysiida
Family: Aplysiidae
Genus: Aplysia
Species:
A. dura
Binomial name
Aplysia dura
Eales, 1960

Aplysia dura, the corn-bearing aplysia, is a species of gastropod mollusc in the genus Aplysia, family Aplysiidae. [1]

Description

The length of the species attains 130 mm. It is 54 mm. wide and 54 mm. high.

Distribution

This species occurs off Tristan da Cunha, South Atlantic Ocean; also in the Cook Strait, New Zealand.

References

  1. ^ Aplysia dura Eales, 1960. 5 October 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
  • Bebbington, A., 1977. Aplysiid species from eastern Australia with notes on the Pacific Ocean Aplysiomorpha (Gastropoda, Opistobranchia). Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. 34 1: 87-147.
  • Eales, N.B. (1960). "Revision of the world species of Aplysia". Bulletin of the British Museum, Natural History (Zoology. 5 (10): 360. Retrieved 5 October 2025.