Flabellina pellucida
| Flabellina pellucida | |
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| illustration in A monograph of the British nudibranchiate Mollusca | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Superfamily: | Flabellinoidea |
| Family: | Flabellinidae |
| Genus: | Flabellina |
| Species: | F. pellucida |
| Binomial name | |
| Flabellina pellucida (Alder & Hancock, 1843)[1] | |
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Flabellina pellucida is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine heterobranch mollusc in the family Flabellinidae.[1]
Description
Flabellina pellucida can grow to a maximum length of 40 mm. It has a translucent white body and opaque white pigment on the tips of the rhinophores, oral tentacles and cerata.[2][3]
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The nudibranch Flabellina pellucida, Leversund, Gulen, Norway.
Diet
The species has been seen feeding on Eudendrium arbuscula, a hydroid in the family Eudendriidae.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 World Register of Marine Species Retrieved July 5, 2012
- ↑ Picton, B.E. & Morrow, C.C. (2015). Flabellina pellucida (Alder & Hancock, 1843). [In] Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland. Accessed on 2015-3-25
- ↑ Flabellina pellucida (Alder & Hancock, 1843). Encyclopedia of Life. Accessed on July 5, 2012
- ↑ The Marine Life Information Network Retrieved July 5, 2012