Lophodoris danielsseni

Lophodoris danielsseni is a species of sea slug, a Dendronotid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Goniodorididae.[2]

Lophodoris danielsseni
The nudibranch Lophodoris danielsseni, Gulen Dive Resort, Norway.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Euctenidiacea
clade Doridacea
Superfamily:
Onchidoridoidea
Family:
Goniodorididae
Genus:
Lophodoris
Species:
L. danielsseni
Binomial name
Lophodoris danielsseni
Friele & Hansen, 1876[1]

Distribution

This species was first described from Norway. It has subsequently been reported from a few localities between Bergen and Tromso.[3]

Description

This goniodorid nudibranch is white in colour.[4]

Ecology

Lophodoris danielsseni feeds on bryozoans.

The nudibranch Lophodoris danielsseni eats a bryozoan growing on the leg of a pycnogonid, Nymphon leptocheles.

References
  1. Friele, H., & Hansen, G. A., 1876. [for 1875]. Bidrag til kundskaben om de norske Nudibranchier. Videnskabs-Selskabet Forhandlinger. Christiania. pp. 69-80, pl. 2.
  2. Bouchet, P. (2015). Lophodoris danielsseni (Friele & Hansen, 1876). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-10-20
  3. Rudman, W.B., 2006 (January 17) [Lophodoris danielsseni Friele & Hansen, 1876. [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney
  4. Odhner, N. H. 1922. Norwegian opisthobranchiate Mollusca in the collections of the Zoological Museum of Kristiania. Nyt Magazin for Naturvidenskaberne 60:1-47.
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