Hypselodoris fontandraui
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| Hypselodoris fontandraui | |
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| Hypselodoris fontandraui | |
| 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. fontandraui |
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| Hypselodoris fontandraui (Pruvot-Fol, 1951)[1] | |
Hypselodoris fontandraui is a species of colourful sea slug or dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chromodorididae.
Distribution
This nudibranch is known from the Eastern Atlantic Ocean and the Western Mediterranean.
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Hypselodoris fontandraui feeding on a sponge of the genus Dysidea
Description
Hypselodoris fontandraui typically has a blue to purple body with yellow lines running down its sides and a single yellow-cream line on its upper dorsum. The upper dorsum is also often marked with light blue streaks near the mantle edge. Its mantle is edged in orange and it has black-purple gills and rhinophores. There is considerable colour variation within this species.
This species can reach a total length of at least 30 mm and has been observed feeding on yellow sponges from the genus Dysidea.[1]
References
- Ortea, J., Valdés, A. & García-Gómez, J.C. (1996) 'Revisión de las especies atlánticas de la familia Chromodorididae (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) de grupo cromático azul. (Review of the Atlantic species of the family Chromodorididae (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) of the blue chromatic group.)' Avicennia, 1996, Suppl. 1: 1-165.
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