Tambja affinis
(Eliot, 1904)
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Identification is verified by Richard Willan, Nudi Pixel expert
Comment from Richard Willan: This individual is special because its rhinophoral clubs are translucent yellow with a blue tip – a colour pattern supposedly found only in the closely related species Tambja victoriae. So the distinction between Tambja affinis and Tambja victoriae now rests on the rather arbitrary choice of rhinophore sheath completely pale greenish yellow [as in this photo] (= Tambja affinis) or rhinophore sheath with a broad pale blue green marginal band (= Tambja victoriae).
| Location: | Komodo, Indonesia |
| Photographer: | Graham Abbott |
| Camera: | Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T20 › View EXIF properties |
| Taken on: | December 17, 2007 |
| Viewed: | 241 times |
| Posted: | 6 months ago |
| Updated: | 6 months ago |
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Scientific Classification
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Opisthobranchia |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Suborder: | Doridina |
| Family: | Polyceridae |
| Subfamily: | Nembrothinae |
| Species: | Tambja affinis |