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Red-lined Blue Doris

Felimare nyalya

Classification

Felimare nyalya is a species of colourful sea slug or dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Chromodorididae. Taxonomic history This species was originally described as Chromodoris nyalya by Eveline and Ernst Marcus in 1967, based on specimens collected from the tropical western Atlantic. It was later transferred to the genus Risbecia by Ortea, Valdés and García-Gómez in 1996 as Risbecia nyalya, during a revision of Atlantic blue chromodorids.

Distribution

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