Common name of Acanthodoris nanaimoensis
 
Common Name Wine-plumed spiny doris
Language English
Type AFS
Official Trade Name No
Rank 1 - (Legal common name (unique))
Country United States (contiguous states)
Locality
Ref. Turgeon, D.D., J.F. Quinn Jr., A.E. Bogan, E.V. Coan, F.G. Hochberg, W.G. Lyons, P.M. Mikkelsen, R.J. Neves, C.F.E. Roper, G. Rosenberg, B. Roth, A. Scheltema, F.G. Thompson, M. Vecchione and J.D. Willams, 1998
Life Stage juveniles and adults
Sex females and males
Core person (eponym)
1st Modifier morphology
2nd Modifier color pattern(s)
Remarks 'doris', i.e., a country in Helas, also a daughter of Oceanus, wife of Nereus and mother of 50 seanymphs.
 
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