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Chromodorididae

139 species · Animals

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Animalia › Mollusca › Gastropoda › Nudibranchia › Chromodorididae

Goniobranchus heatherae (Gosliner, 1994)

Goniobranchus heatherae, the red-spotted nudibranch, is an endemic southern African dorid that feeds on sponges.

Goniobranchus leopardus (Rudman, 1987)

Goniobranchus leopardus is a colorful nudibranch found in parts of the Indo-West Pacific, growing up to 6 cm long.

Goniobranchus bombayanus (Winckworth, 1946)

Goniobranchus bombayanus is a small chromodorid nudibranch found in waters around India and the Andaman Islands.

Diversidoris crocea (Rudman, 1986)

Diversidoris crocea is a small yellow nudibranch found in the tropical western Pacific that feeds preferentially on the yellow sponge Darwinella.

Diversidoris flava (Eliot, 1904)

Diversidoris flava is a small yellow nudibranch with a red mantle margin, found across the Indo-West Pacific, feeding on the sponge Hyrtios.

Diversidoris sulphurea (Rudman, 1986)

Diversidoris sulphurea is a colour-variable Australian endemic nudibranch that lives on matching yellow Darwinella sponges.

Felimida luteorosea (Rapp, 1827)

Felimida luteorosea is a purple-spotted nudibranch found in parts of the Atlantic and Mediterranean.

Felimida purpurea (Risso, 1831)

Felimida purpurea is a species of chromodorid nudibranch found across the Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic Ocean.

Felimida krohni (Vérany, 1846)

Felimida krohni is a variably coloured Atlantic and Mediterranean nudibranch that feeds on sponges, with aposematic bright colouration.

Felimida macfarlandi (Cockerell, 1901)

Felimida macfarlandi is a purple striped nudibranch found along the Pacific coast of North America from California to Baja California.

Felimida binza (Ev.Marcus & Er.Marcus, 1963)

Felimida binza is a marine nudibranch species found from Florida to Brazil, reaching a maximum length of 30 mm.

Doriprismatica atromarginata (Cuvier, 1804)

Doriprismatica atromarginata is a common Indo-Pacific nudibranch that feeds on sponges and grows up to at least 60 mm long.

Verconia norba (Er.Marcus & Ev.Marcus, 1970)

Verconia norba is a varied-color purple sea slug found across the tropical Indo-West Pacific on coralline alga.

Verconia haliclona (Burn, 1957)

Verconia haliclona is a small endemic Australian marine nudibranch with body color and marking variations by region.

Verconia simplex (Pease, 1871)

Verconia simplex is a marine species found in tropical West Pacific and off Queensland, Australia, with body length 5–14 mm.

Verconia verconis (Basedow & Hedley, 1905)

Verconia verconis is a poorly understood marine species from off South Australia, whose holotype is lost or unlocalized.

Verconia romeri (Risbec, 1928)

Verconia romeri is a shell-less colorful dorid nudibranch in Chromodorididae, found off Australia and New Caledonia.

Verconia closeorum (Rudman, 1986)

Verconia closeorum is a shell-less chromodoridid dorid nudibranch sea slug endemic to southern Australia.

Chromolaichma sedna (Ev.Marcus & Er.Marcus, 1967)

Chromolaichma sedna (also called Doriprismatica sedna) is a seaslug native to the Eastern Pacific that feeds exclusively on spiculated demosponges.

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Polyceridae 51 species Discodorididae 43 species Facelinidae 28 species Phyllidiidae 25 species Myrrhinidae 18 species Trinchesiidae 16 species Aeolidiidae 14 species Dotidae 12 species

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