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