Hypselodoris malacitana

Hypselodoris malacitana
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. malacitana
Binomial name
Hypselodoris malacitana
Luque, 1986[1]

Hypselodoris malacitana is a species of colourful sea slug or dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chromodorididae.[1]

Distribution

This nudibranch is known only from the Mediterranean near Spain.

Description

Hypselodoris malacitana has a dark blue-black body and is covered in yellow specks. The mantle edge has bands of blue-yellow-black-yellow-blues lines. The gills and rhinophores are opaque light-blue lined with fine yellow.

This species can reach a total length of at least 20 millimetres (0.79 in).[1]

References

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