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Nudibranch

Felimare agassizii

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Field Notes

Description:

Up 1o 100 mm. F. agassizii has a black body flecked all over with white specks. The upper dorsum has a series of larger white spots running longitudinally. The mantle is edged with a green-yellow-green band, its gills are a transulencent gold colour tipped with black and its rhinophores are black.

Habitat:

Islands near Manuel Antonio.

Reference Links:

Felimare agassizii, The Sea Slug Forum - Hypselodoris agassizii

Species ID Suggestions

Nudibranch

Felimare agassizii

Reference Link
João Pedro Silva
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Comments (3)
João Pedro Silva
You're welcome, Marta. you might want to red the full paper with the revision as it's freely available: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0033479
João Pedro Silva
Since the revision of the Chromodorididae family in 2012, based on DNA analysis, this has been moved into the Felimare genus. One interesting result of this revision is that it has shown the species from the Eastern Pacific are more closely related to the species of the Atlantic than to the species from the Western Pacific.

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PublishedJune 23, 2014

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