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Felimare cantabrica

Felimare cantabrica
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Felimare cantabrica
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. cantabrica
Binomial name
Felimare cantabrica
(Bouchet & Ortea, 1980)
Synonyms

Hypselodoris cantabrica Bouchet & Ortea, 1980 (basionym)


Hypselodoris cantabrica Bouchet & Ortea, 1980 (basionym)

Felimare cantabrica is a species of colourful sea slug or dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Chromodorididae.

This nudibranch is found in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean (Bay of Biscay) and the Atlantic coasts of Spain and Portugal.

Felimare cantabrica has a light and dark blue body, flecked with yellow lines and spots. Its mantle edge is lined with yellow-light blue-yellow banding. The gills and rhinophores are purple.

This species can reach a total length of at least 40 mm and has been observed feeding on sponges from the genus Dysidea.


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