| Hypselodoris nigrostriata | |
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| Hypselodoris nigrostriata | |
| 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. nigrostriata |
| Binomial name | |
| Hypselodoris nigrostriata (Eliot, 1904)[1] |
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Hypselodoris nigrostriata is a species of sea slug or dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chromodorididae. [1]
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This nudibranch is found in the Western Indian Ocean, from Tanzania to the Red Sea.
Hypselodoris nigrostriata has a yellow body with black striated lines running all over the body and upper dorsum. The gills and rhinophores are orange-red.
This species can reach a total length of at least 40 mm and feeds on blue sponges from the genus Dysidea.[1]