Antiopella barbarensis | |
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Antiopella barbarensis from Santa Cruz, California | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Nudibranchia |
Suborder: | Cladobranchia |
Family: | Janolidae |
Genus: | Antiopella |
Species: | A. barbarensis |
Binomial name | |
Antiopella barbarensis (J. G. Cooper, 1863) [1] | |
Synonyms | |
Janolus barbarensis(J. G. Cooper, 1863) |
Antiopella barbarensis, common name Santa Barbara janolus, [2] is a colourful sea slug, a cladobranch nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Janolidae. [3] [4] [5]
Antiopella barbarensis is a commonly found nudibranch on the Pacific coast inhabiting tide pools of La Jolla, California. [6] Populations also expand to some parts of Costa Rica.
Behrens 1991 gives the distribution as "San Francisco Bay to Baja California, Gulf of California, Mexico". [7]
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