| Hypselodoris zebrina | |
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| 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. zebrina |
| Binomial name | |
| Hypselodoris zebrina (Alder & Hancock, 1864)[1] |
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Hypselodoris zebrina is a species of colourful sea slug or dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chromodorididae. After initially being described in south-eastern India in 1864, this species was not seen again until 2002, nearly 150 years later.[2]
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This nudibranch is found in the Indo-Pacific Ocean from India to Thailand.[1]
Hypselodoris zebrina has a white body which has purple dots running longitudinally beneath its mantle. The mantle edge is often yellow. On the dorsum there are purple lines and yellow dots. The gills and rhinophores are white, outlined in red.
This species can reach a total length of at least 50 mm.[1]