| Okenia atkinsonorum | |
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| Okenia atkinsonorum, Nelson Bay NSW, head end towards the left | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Onchidoridoidea |
| Family: | Goniodorididae |
| Genus: | Okenia |
| Species: | O. atkinsonorum |
| Binomial name | |
| Okenia atkinsonorum Rudman, 2007 |
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Okenia atkinsonorum is a species of colorful sea slug, specifically a dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Goniodorididae.[1]
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This species is known from New South Wales, southeastern Australia and probably also from Northern New Zealand.[2]
This brightly colored species is completely pink. Only the tips of the mantle projections, rhinophores and gills have a darker shade of the same color. It does not have a traditionally shaped mantle, but instead has up to seven lateral appendages or papillas that protude from the main body.
This species feeds on the bryozoan Pleurotoichus clathratus.