Hypselodoris infucata

Hypselodoris infucata
Mating pair
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
Family: Chromodorididae
Genus: Hypselodoris
Species: H. infucata
Binomial name
Hypselodoris infucata
(Rüppell & Leuckart, 1831)[1][Note 1]

Hypselodoris infucata is a species of colorful sea slug or dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chromodorididae.

This species eats sponges.

This nudibranch is found in the tropical Indo-West Pacific.[2] The species now also occurs in the Mediterranean, having invaded as a Lessepsian migrant through the Suez Canal.[3]

Notes

  1. The date on this is also sometimes quoted as either 1830 or 1828.

References

  1. Manuel Caballer, & Serge Gofas (2012). "Hypselodoris infucata (Rüppell & Leuckart, 1831)". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved July 29, 2012.
  2. Hypselodoris infucata (Ruppell & Leuckart, 1830 or 1831). Sea Slug Forum, accessed 11 February 2009. Archived October 16, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
  3. Rodríguez, G.; Suárez, H. (2001). "Anthropogenic dispersal of decapod crustaceans in aquatic environments". Interciencia. 26 (7): 282–288.


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