Felimare californiensis
| California blue doris | |
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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: | Felimare |
| Species: | F. californiensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Felimare californiensis (Bergh, 1879)[1] | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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The California blue dorid, Felimare californiensis, is a species of colourful sea slug or dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chromodorididae that eats dysideid sponges.[2]
Description
The body grows to a length of 90 mm.
Distribution
This nudibranch is found in the Eastern Pacific Ocean along the Californian coast from Monterey Bay through Baja California.[1] It became regionally extinct in the northern part of its range, disappearing completely from California by 1984. It reappeared beginning in 2003 and is now found in a few isolated places in California.[3]
References
- 1 2 http://www.seaslugforum.net/hypscali.htm
- 1 2 Bouchet, P. (2012). Felimare californiensis. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=597520 on 2012-05-11
- ↑ Goddard, Jeffrey H. R., Maria C. Schaefer, Craig Hoover, Ángel Valdés, 2013. Regional extinction of a conspicuous dorid nudibranch (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in California, Marine Biology, 160(6):1497-1510
- Bertsch H. (1977) The Chromodoridinae nudibranchs from the Pacific coast of America.- Part I. Investigative methods and supra-specific taxonomy. The Veliger 20(2): 107-118
- Debelius, H. & Kuiter, R.H. (2007) Nudibranchs of the world. ConchBooks, Frankfurt, 360 pp. ISBN 978-3-939767-06-0 page(s): 108
- Johnson R.F. & Gosliner T.M. (2012) Traditional taxonomic groupings mask evolutionary history: A molecular phylogeny and new classification of the chromodorid nudibranchs. PLoS ONE 7(4): e33479
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