Felimare villafranca
Felimare villafranca
Classification
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Nudibranchia
- Family
- Chromodorididae
Felimare villafranca is a species of colourful sea slug or dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Chromodorididae. Distribution This nudibranch is found on the coasts of the Eastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea from France, the Bay of Biscay to Morocco, Cape Verde Islands, Canary Islands and the Azores. Description This species is predominantly dark blue in colour with a pattern of longitudinal yellow lines.
Le Doris de Villefranche, Felimare villafranca, est un nudibranche de la famille des Chromodorididae. Cette espèce est bleue et striée de lignes jaunes et blanches irrégulières. Elle se nourrit exclusivement de spongiaires.
Felimare es un género de moluscos nudibranquios de la familia Chromodorididae (babosas de mar). El género fue recientemente reerecto con base en análisis moleculares utilizando dos marcadores mitocondriales, el citocromo oxidasa subunidad 1 (COI) y el 16S rRNA (16S). Nombre común Español: babosas de mar.
Distribution
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