Atagema ornata

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| image = Atagema ornata, Koh Phangan 2.jpg

| genus = Atagema

| species = ornata

| authority = (Ehrenberg, 1831)

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| Doris ornata | Ehrenberg, 1831Ehrenberg, Christian Gottfried. 1828, 1831. [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48517245 Symbolae physicae seu icones et descriptiones animalium evertebratorum sepositis insectis quae ex itinere per Africam borealem et Asiam Occidentalem—novae aut illustratae redierunt.] Decas 1 Mollusca.

| Doriopsis ornata | Bergh, 1877

| Trippa ornata | (Ehrenberg, 1831)

| Petelodoris triphylla | Bergh, 1881 (doubtful) }}

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Atagema ornata is a species of sea slug or dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Discodorididae. It has been considered to be synonymous with Atagema intecta by some authors.

Distribution

This species was described from the Red Sea and is known from the Indian and western Pacific Oceans.

Ecology

This dorid nudibranch feeds on sponges.

References

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{{cite journal |last1=Valdés |first1=Ángel |last2=Gosliner |first2=Terrence M. |title=Systematics and phylogeny of the caryophyllidia-bearing dorids (Mollusca, Nudibranchia), with descriptions of a new genus and four new species from Indo-Pacific deep waters |journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |date=2001 |volume=133 |issue=2 |pages=103–198 |doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.2001.tb00689.x|s2cid=86378896 |doi-access=free }}

{{cite WoRMS |title=Atagema ornata (Ehrenberg, 1831) |year=2022 |id=719015 |db=Marine Mollusca |access-date=20 February 2022}}

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Category:Discodorididae

Category:Molluscs of the Indian Ocean

Category:Molluscs of the Pacific Ocean

Category:Fauna of the Red Sea

Category:Gastropods described in 1831

Category:Taxa named by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg