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Behrens' Dorid
Doriopsilla davebehrensi
Doriopsilla davebehrensi is a species of dorid nudibranch, a colourful sea slug, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dendrodorididae.
There are five other species that are quite similar to this species and can be confused with it, and they are: Doriopsilla albopunctata (Cooper, 1863), Doriopsilla bertschi Hoover, Lindsay, Goddard & Valdés, 2015, Doriopsilla fulva (MacFarland, 1905), Doriopsilla gemela Gosliner, Schaefer & Millen, 1999 and Baptodoris mimetica Gosliner, 1991.
From the article Doriopsilla davebehrensi on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
This nudibranch can grow as large as 32 mm. It can be dark yellow or orange in colour, but always with very small opaque white dots. The dots are mostly in circles around the tubercles, occasionally on a tubercle. The rhinophores on the head end are orange-yellow in color, and the gills (the rosette at the back) are pale yellow.
Range & habitat
This species was described from Bahía de los Ángeles, Baja California, Mexico. A specimen was also found at Newport Bay, California.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 467282.