Chromodoris sp. 7.

Order: NUDIBRANCHIA
Suborder: DORIDINA
Superfamily: EUDORIDOIDEA
Family: Chromodorididae

DISTRIBUTION

Known only from Marshall Islands.

PHOTO

UPPER: Approx 15mm long.
LOWER: pair by their prey sponge, 5, 7mm long.
Marshall Islands. PHOTO: Scott Johnson.

Note from Scott Johnson: Known only from Enewetak and Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands. It is orange red with a wide white margin. Both the anterior and posterior ends of the mantle have a rather narrow deep orange-red margin and equally narrow yellow submargin. The rhinophore lamellae and branchial pinnae are irregularly edged with white. Its radula makes it a typical Chromodoris, and it's one of the species whose egg masses always have an orange extra-capsular yolk body adjacent to each ovum.

See Scott Johnson's message below.

Authorship details
Rudman, W.B., 1999 (November 20) Chromodoris sp. 7. [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet/chrosp7

Related messages

  1. Is this Chromodoris sp.7?
    From: Yasuhiro Shamoto, April 19, 2006
  2. Chromodoris from Marshall Ids
    From: Scott Johnson, November 22, 1999

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