Crimora edwardsi explained

Crimora edwardsi is a species of colourful sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Polyceridae.^[1]

Distribution

This species was described from Port Jackson, New South Wales, Australia.

Description

The illustration of Angas appears to show a species of Crimora, not Nembrotha. O'Donoghue (1924)^[2] did not replace the name Nembrotha with Angasiella because he did not believe this species belonged to Nembrotha.^[3] It has been rediscovered in southern Queensland.^[4]

Notes and References

1. MolluscaBase (2018). Crimora edwardsi (Angas, 1864). Accessed on 2019-10-13.
2. O’Donoghue, C.H. (1924). Report on Opisthobranchiata from the Abrolhos Islands, Western Australia, with Description of a new parasitic Copepod. J. Linn. Soc., 35(237): 521-579.
3. Pola M.; Cervera J. L.; Gosliner T. M. (2008). Revision of the Indo-Pacific genus Nembrotha (Nudibranchia: Dorididae: Polyceridae), with a description of two new species. Scientia Marina. 72(1):145-183.
4. Cobb, G. & Burn, R., 2017. Crimora edwardsi (Angas, 1864). Nudibranchs of the Sunshine Coast. Accessed 2019-01-13.