| Dendronotus albus | |
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| Dendronotus albus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Tritonioidea |
| Family: | Dendronotidae |
| Genus: | Dendronotus |
| Species: | D. albus |
| Binomial name | |
| Dendronotus albus (Macfarland, 1966) |
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Dendronotus albus is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusk in the family Dendronotidae.[1]
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This animal can be found along the west coast of North America from Alaska to Baja California.[2]
This species grows to a maximum length of 3.5 cm.[3] It has an opaque white line on the 'tail' but usually has more than four pairs of cerata, (typically 5 to 7), and normally has an orange-yellow tipped cerata, although in rare cases this colour is absent.[4]
This species feeds on hydroids.[5]