Haminoea virescens
(Sowerby, 1833)

Order: CEPHALASPIDEA
Family: Haminoeidae

DISTRIBUTION

West Coast of North America from Alaska to Panama (Behrens, 1991).

PHOTO

Lagoon Point,Whidbey Island.Washington, USA. Eastern Pacific Ocean. Depth: 6 inches. Length: 1 inch. 9 June 2005. floating dock. Photographer: Jan Kocian

According to Abbott (1954), this is a species of the open coast. The background colour of the body varies from a translucent brown to translucent green with milky yellow spots, which are also visible on the mantle which can be seen through the trasparent shell. White mottling can also be present of the parapodia. It grows to at least 18 mm in length.

The shell, like most of the genus is thin, and fragile with a sunken spire. It is transparent to translucent and yellowish-green in colour.

• Abbott, R.T. (1954). American Seashells. 1st Edition, D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., Princeton, New Jersey, 541 pp.
• Costa, A. (1869). Appendice al saggio sui molluschi Aeolididae del golfo Napoli. Annu. Mus. zool. Napoli, 5: 46-48
• Gibson & Chia. (1989) Description of a new species of Haminoea.. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 67(4): 914-922. .
• Marcus, Ernst. 1961. Opisthobranch Mollusks from California. The Veliger, 3 (Supplement).
• Sowerby, J. (1833). The Genera of Recent and fossil shells, for the use of students in conchology and geology. Part 39, Bulla, pl. 31, figs 1-8. London: Sowerby

Authorship details
Rudman, W.B., 2005 (September 19) Haminoea virescens (Sowerby, 1833). [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet/hamivire

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