{{Short description|Species of gastropod}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2017}} {{Speciesbox | image = Ardeadoris electra 3.jpg | image_caption = | genus = Ardeadoris | species = electra | authority = (Rudman, 1990)<ref name="forum">[http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet/gloselec ''Glossodoris electra'' Rudman, 1990]. Sea Slug Forum, accessed 18 February 2010.</ref> | synonyms_ref= <ref name="WoRMS" /> | synonyms ={{species list |Glossodoris electra|Rudman, 1990 (basionym)}} }}
'''''Ardeadoris electra''''' is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Chromodorididae.<ref name="WoRMS">Bouchet, P. (2012). [http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=597322 ''Ardeadoris electra''.] Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2012-06-18</ref> It was transferred to the genus ''Ardeadoris'' on the basis of DNA evidence.<ref>Johnson R.F. & Gosliner T.M. (2012) [http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0033479 ''Traditional taxonomic groupings mask evolutionary history: A molecular phylogeny and new classification of the chromodorid nudibranchs''.] PLoS ONE 7(4): e33479</ref>
== Distribution == This species is found in the tropical Western Pacific Ocean around eastern Australia and New Caledonia.<ref name="forum" /><ref>Rudman W.B. (1990) ''The Chromodorididae (Opisthobranchia: Mollusca) of the Indo-West Pacific: further species of ''Glossodoris'', ''Thorunna'' and the ''Chromodoris aureomarginata'' colour group.'' Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 100: 263-326 page(s): 281</ref><ref>Gosliner, T.M., Behrens, D.W. & Valdés, Á. (2008) ''Indo-Pacific Nudibranchs and seaslugs. A field guide to the world's most diverse fauna''. Sea Challengers Natural History Books, Washington, 426 pp. page(s): 237</ref><ref>Debelius, H. & Kuiter, R.H. (2007) ''Nudibranchs of the world.'' ConchBooks, Frankfurt, 360 pp. {{ISBN|978-3-939767-06-0}} page(s): 186</ref>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ardeadoris Electra}} Category:Chromodorididae Category:Gastropods described in 1990 Category:Taxa named by William B. Rudman
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