Hypselodoris infucata | |
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A mating pair of Hypselodoris infucata | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Nudipleura clade Nudibranchia |
Superfamily: | Doridoidea |
Family: | Chromodorididae |
Genus: | Hypselodoris |
Species: | H. infucata |
Binomial name | |
Hypselodoris infucata (Ruppell & Leuckart, 1830) [the date on this is also sometimes quoted as either 1831 or 1828] |
Hypselodoris infucata is a species of colorful sea slug or dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chromodorididae.
This species eats sponges.
This nudibranch is found in the tropical Indo-West Pacific and in the Mediterranean.[1]