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Chromodoris grahami

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Gastropoda

Family
  
Chromodorididae

Scientific name
  
Chromodoris grahami

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Superfamily
  
Doridoidea

Genus
  
Chromodoris

Rank
  
Species

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Chromodoris grahami is a species of colourful sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Chromodorididae.

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Taxonomic history

This species should be transferred to Felimida according to Johnson & Gosliner (2012).

‘Felimida’ Marcus, 1971 [86].

Type species: Felimida sphoni Marcus, 1971 [86] (by monotypy)

This name will be used for all eastern Pacific and Atlantic species of Chromodoris and Glossodoris (except Glossodoris sedna). These species form a polytomy including Glossodoris baumanni and three clades of Atlantic and Eastern Pacific chromodorids.

Chromodoris clenchi, C. norrisi and C. sphoni (pp = 1.00)

Glossodoris dalli and G. edmundsi (pp = 1.00)

Chromodoris krohni, C. luteorosea and C. purpurea (pp = 0.78)

Distribution

This species was described from Jamaica. It has been reported from Colombia.

Description

The maximum recorded length is 20 mm.

Habitat

Minimum recorded depth is 1 m. Maximum recorded depth is 5 m.

References

Chromodoris grahami Wikipedia