Felimare californiensis

Blue Dorid Photo - Santa Cruz Island, So Cal

California blue doris
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
Superfamily: Doridoidea
Family: Chromodorididae
Genus: Felimare
Species: F. californiensis
Binomial name
Felimare californiensis
(Bergh, 1879)[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Chromodoris californiensis Bergh, 1879 (basionym)
  • Chromodoris calensis Bergh, L.S.R., 1879
  • Chromodoris glauca Bergh, 1879
  • Chromodoris universitatis Cockerell, 1901
  • Hypselodoris californiensis (Bergh, 1879)

The California blue dorid, Felimare californiensis, is a species of colourful sea slug or dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chromodorididae that eats dysideid sponges.[2]

Description

The body grows to a length of 90 mm.

Distribution

This nudibranch is found in the Eastern Pacific Ocean along the Californian coast from Monterey Bay through Baja California.[1] It became regionally extinct in the northern part of its range, disappearing completely from California by 1984. It reappeared beginning in 2003 and is now found in a few isolated places in California.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 http://www.seaslugforum.net/hypscali.htm
  2. 1 2 Bouchet, P. (2012). Felimare californiensis. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=597520 on 2012-05-11
  3. ↑ Goddard, Jeffrey H. R., Maria C. Schaefer, Craig Hoover, Ángel Valdés, 2013. Regional extinction of a conspicuous dorid nudibranch (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in California, Marine Biology, 160(6):1497-1510
  • Bertsch H. (1977) The Chromodoridinae nudibranchs from the Pacific coast of America.- Part I. Investigative methods and supra-specific taxonomy. The Veliger 20(2): 107-118
  • Debelius, H. & Kuiter, R.H. (2007) Nudibranchs of the world. ConchBooks, Frankfurt, 360 pp. ISBN 978-3-939767-06-0 page(s): 108
  • Johnson R.F. & Gosliner T.M. (2012) Traditional taxonomic groupings mask evolutionary history: A molecular phylogeny and new classification of the chromodorid nudibranchs. PLoS ONE 7(4): e33479


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