Fjordia browni | |
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The nudibranch Fjordia browni, Gulen Dive resort, Norway. | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Nudipleura clade Nudibranchia clade Dexiarchia clade Cladobranchia clade Aeolidida |
Superfamily: | Flabellinoidea |
Family: | Flabellinidae |
Genus: | Fjordia |
Species: | F. browni |
Binomial name | |
Fjordia browni (Picton, 1980) |
Fjordia browni is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Coryphellidae.
This species was described from Ireland. It is a fairly common species found in exposed sites from northern France to Norway.
This Fjordia has a narrow body and cerata in well defined clusters. The cerata have a broad band of white pigment at the tip.
The diet of this species is a hydroid, Tubularia indivisa.