Acanthodoris pina explained

Acanthodoris pina is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Onchidorididae.^{[1] [2]}

Distribution

This species was described from Puerto Penasco, Sonora, Mexico. It has been reported from there south to Bahía de los Ángeles.^[3] It is thought to be endemic to the northern part of the Gulf of California. Specimens from Baja California have been sequenced for the 16S ribosomal RNA, Histone H3 and CO1 genes.^{[4] [5]}

Notes and References

1. Bouchet, P. (2015). Acanthodoris pina Marcus & Marcus, 1967. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-01-12.
2. Keen, A. M. (1971) Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Marine mollusks from Baja California to Peru, ed. 2. Stanford University Press. xv, 1064 pp., 22 pls.
3. Behrens, D. W., & Hermosillo, A. (2005) Eastern Pacific nudibranchs, a guide to the opisthobranchs from Alaska to Central America. vi + 137 pp., 314 photos. Sea Challengers, Monterey, California, page 56.
4. Hallas, JM and Gosliner, TM. (2015) Family Matters: the first molecular phylogeny of the Onchidorididae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Nudibranchia). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 88: 16-27.
5. Hallas, J.M., Simison, W.B. & Gosliner, T.M. (2016) Dating and biogeographical patterns in the sea slug genus Acanthodoris Gray, 1850 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Nudibranchia). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 97: 19-31.