A new abyssal arminacean nudibranch from new zealand

Abstract

Heterodorls antipodes n.sp. is described from a single specimen trawled at 1760-1800 m on the slope of the Tasman Basin west of New Zealand’s South Island. Diagnostic features exist in body shape and colour, the gut, and the reproductive system. The genus was previously known only from the North Atlantic. Heterodorididae Verriil & Emerton in Verrill is reduced to a subfamily of Arminidae Iredale & O’Donoghue. © 1981 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.