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California Blue Dorid

Felimare californiensis

Classification

Felimare californiensis, common name the California blue dorid, is a species of colourful sea slug or dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chromodorididae that eats dysideid sponges. Distribution This nudibranch is found in the Eastern Pacific Ocean along the Californian coast from Monterey Bay through Baja California. It became regionally extinct in the northern part of its range, disappearing completely from California by 1984.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 967Mexico · 125