Orienthella cooperi

Orienthella cooperi
Orienthella cooperi from Fitzgerald Marine Reserve, California
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Dexiarchia
clade Cladobranchia
clade Aeolidida
Superfamily: Flabellinoidea
Family: Coryphellidae
Genus: Orienthella
Species: O. cooperi
Binomial name
Orienthella cooperi
(Cockerell, 1901)[1]

Orienthella cooperi is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Coryphellidae.[2]

Distribution

This species is known from the California Current region from Elkhorn Slough, California south to Bahia San Quintin, Baja California, Mexico.[3]

Description

Orienthella cooperi - adult and juvenile - from Santa Cruz, California

Orienthella cooperi has a translucent white body with a stripe of white surface pigment along the middle of the back. This line forks in front of the rhinophores and may continue onto the oral tentacles. There are small white pigment spots on the outer part of the oral tentacles and rhinophores. The cerata contain green digestive gland and have a sprinkling of white spots in the outer part, below the cnidosacs.

References

  1. ↑ Cockerell, T. D. A. 1901. Three new nudibranchs from California. Journal of Malacology 8(3):85-87.
  2. ↑ Bouchet, P. (2015). Flabellina cooperi (Cockerell, 1901). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-10-25
  3. ↑ Flabellina cooperi At: iNaturalist.org
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