Kingdom Animalia Class Gastropoda Superfamily Flabellinoidea Rank Species | Phylum Mollusca Subclass Heterobranchia Family Flabellinidae | |
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Similar Flabellina browni, Flabellina pellucida, Flabellina verrucosa, Flabellina lineata, Flabellina gracilis | ||
Flabellina nobilis is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine heterobranch mollusc in the family Flabellinidae.
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Distribution
Flabellina nobilis was described from a single specimen dredged in 145 m depth off Cape Cod in 1879. It is widely distributed in the northern Atlantic Ocean from Norway south to Ireland and on the North American coast south to New England.
Description
This species is translucent white with opaque white markings. The digestive gland in the cerata is either orange or red in colour. The rhinophores are pale yellow-brown in colour and covered with small papillae.
This species grows to 40-50 mm (4-5 cm) in length. The maximum recorded body length is 63 mm.
Ecology
Minimum recorded depth is 20 m. Maximum recorded depth is 190 m.
References
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