Flabellina pellucida

Flabellina pellucida
The nudibranch Flabellina pellucida, Leversund, Gulen, Norway.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Superfamily: Flabellinoidea
Family: Flabellinidae
Genus: Flabellina
Species: F. pellucida
Binomial name
Flabellina pellucida
(Alder & Hancock, 1843)[1]
Synonyms
  • Coryphella pellucida (Alder & Hancock, 1843)
  • Eolis pellucida Alder & Hancock, 1843

Flabellina pellucida is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine heterobranch mollusc in the family Flabellinidae.[2]

Description

Flabellina pellucida can grow to a maximum length of 40 mm. It has a translucent white body and opaque white pigment on the tips of the rhinophores, oral tentacles and cerata.[3][4]

Illustration in A monograph of the British nudibranchiate Mollusca

Diet

The species usually feeds on Eudendrium arbuscula, a hydroid in the family Eudendriidae.[3]

References

  1. Alder, J., & A. Hancock. 1843. Notice of a British species of Calliopaea, D'Orbigny, and of four new species of Eolis, with observations on the development and structure of the nudibranchiate Mollusca. Annals & Magazine of Natural History 12(28):233-238.
  2. Gofas, S. (2015). Flabellina pellucida (Alder & Hancock, 1843). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-11-03
  3. 1 2 Picton, B.E. & Morrow, C.C. (2015). Flabellina pellucida (Alder & Hancock, 1843). [In] Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland. Accessed on 2015-3-25
  4. Flabellina pellucida (Alder & Hancock, 1843). Encyclopedia of Life. Accessed on July 5, 2012
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