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Eubranchus exiguus is a species of small sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Eubranchidae.
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Distribution
The type locality is the harbour at Fowey, in England. It is found all round the British Isles and from the Arctic and Scandinavia to the Mediterranean Sea.
Description
Eubranchus exiguus was originally discovered and described (under the name Eolis exigua) in 1848, by the British malacologists Joshua Alder and Albany Hancock.
The original text (the type description) reads as follows:
The maximum recorded length is 8 mm.
Habitat
Minimum recorded depth is 0 m. Maximum recorded depth is 10 m.
References
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