Dirona pellucida Volodchenko, 1941 is a animal in the Dironidae family, order Nudibranchia, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

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Dirona pellucida Volodchenko, 1941

Dirona pellucida Volodchenko, 1941

Dirona pellucida is a translucent orange nudibranch with white-lined cerata, found from Oregon to Alaska and south to Japan and Korea.

Family
Genus
Dirona
Order
Nudibranchia
Class
Gastropoda

About Dirona pellucida Volodchenko, 1941

Like other species in its genus, Dirona pellucida has a translucent body with large, broad cerata. Its body ranges across various shades of orange, and a distinct white line runs along the edge of every cerata. This nudibranch is distributed from Oregon north to Alaska, across the Bering Sea, and south to Japan and Korea.

Photo: (c) Clara Oliverson, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Clara Oliverson · cc-by-nc

Taxonomy

Animalia Mollusca Gastropoda Nudibranchia Dironidae Dirona

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

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