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Flabellina pricei

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Gastropoda

Superfamily
  
Flabellinoidea

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Subclass
  
Heterobranchia

Family
  
Flabellinidae

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Flabellina poenicia (also known as "Smooth-tooth aeolis") is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine heterobranch mollusc in the family Flabellinidae.

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Description

This species of flabellinid has the cerata in neat, well-defined rows. The body colour is translucent white with a pinkish hue. The cerata become orange in the outer third with a red tip to the digestive gland and a small spot or ring of opaque white at the cnidosac. The rhinophores are annulate. F. pricei have a maximum length of 25mm.

Distribution

The type locality of this species is California. The species is reported from the Northeast Pacific Ocean on the North American coast from Ketchikan, Alaska to La Jolla, California.

Diet

This species has been reported to feed on the hydroids, Halecium and Corymorpha palma.

References

Flabellina pricei Wikipedia