Diaphorodoris alba Portmann & Sandmeier, 1960 is a animal in the Calycidorididae family, order Nudibranchia, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

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Diaphorodoris alba Portmann & Sandmeier, 1960

Diaphorodoris alba Portmann & Sandmeier, 1960

Diaphorodoris alba is a shell-less marine dorid nudibranch found from the Atlantic down to the Mediterranean Sea.

Genus
Diaphorodoris
Order
Nudibranchia
Class
Gastropoda

About Diaphorodoris alba Portmann & Sandmeier, 1960

Diaphorodoris alba is a species of sea slug that is classified as a dorid nudibranch. It is a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc that belongs to the family Calycidorididae. This species was originally described based on specimens collected from Banyuls-sur-Mer and Villefranche-sur-Mer in France, and Naples in Italy. It has been reported from Pembrokeshire in Wales, and along Atlantic Ocean coasts extending south into the Mediterranean Sea.

Photo: (c) João Pedro Silva, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Taxonomy

Animalia › Mollusca › Gastropoda › Nudibranchia › Calycidorididae › Diaphorodoris

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Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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