Euselenops luniceps

Euselenops luniceps
	A mating pair of Euselenops luniceps, Bontoh, Sangeang, Indonesia.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia; clade Euthyneura; clade Nudipleura; clade Pleurobranchomorpha
Superfamily:	Pleurobranchoidea
Family:	Pleurobranchaeidae
Genus:	Euselenops; Pilsbry, 1896
Species:	E. luniceps
Binomial name
	Euselenops luniceps; (Cuvier, 1817)
Synonyms
	Neda H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854; Oscaniopsis amboinei Vayssière, 1898; Oscaniopsis compta Bergh, 1897; Oscaniopsis semperi Bergh, 1897; Pleurobranchus luniceps Cuvier, 1817 (original combination);

Euselenops luniceps is a species of sea slug, a pleurobranchomorph gastropod mollusc in the family Pleurobranchaeidae.^[4]

Euselenops luniceps is the type species of the genus Euselenops^[1] and Euselenops luniceps is the only species in the genus Euselenops.

The radula of this species was studied by Thompson & Bebbington (1973), but they did not publish a description or an image of it.^[5]

Distribution

This species is widespread in the Indo-West Pacific region.^[6]

^ ^a ^b Pilsbry H. A. (1896). In: Tryon G. W. & Pilsbry H. A. Manual of Conchology 16: 191, 228. Plate 54, figure 95-97.
^ Cuvier G. (1817). Le Règne Animal. volume 2 (Gasteropodes): page 396; volume 4 (Plates): plate 11, figure 2.
^ Adams (1854). Gen. Rec. Moll. 2: 40.
^ ^a ^b Bouchet, P. (2015). Euselenops luniceps (Cuvier, 1816). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-10-19
^ Thompson T. E. & Bebbington A. (1973). "Scanning electron microscope studies of gastropod radulae". Malacologia 14: 147-165.
^ Rudman, W.B., 1999 (December 1) Euselenops luniceps (Cuvier, 1817). [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.