Kingdom Animalia Class Gastropoda Family Chromodorididae Scientific name Hypselodoris malacitana | Phylum Mollusca Superfamily Doridoidea Genus Felimare Rank Species | |
Similar Felimare marci, Felimare bilineata, Felimare zebra, Felimare cantabrica | ||
Hypselodoris malacitana is a species of colourful sea slug or dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chromodorididae.
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Distribution
This nudibranch is known only from the Mediterranean near Spain.
Description
Hypselodoris malacitana has a dark blue-black body and is covered in yellow specks. The mantle edge has bands of blue-yellow-black-yellow-blues lines. The gills and rhinophores are opaque light-blue lined with fine yellow.
This species can reach a total length of at least 20 millimetres (0.79 in).
References
Felimare malacitana Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA