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(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Nudipleura clade Nudibranchia clade Dexiarchia clade Cladobranchia clade Dendronotida |
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Species: | D. dalli |
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Dendronotus dalli | |
Dendronotus dalli is a species of sea slug, a dendronotid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dendronotidae. [2]
This species was described from the Bering Sea. [1] It can be found along the west coast of North America from the Bering Sea, Alaska to Puget Sound, Washington. [3] [4] Similar looking animals from the White Sea and Barents Sea, North Atlantic have been demonstrated to be a distinct species, Dendronotus niveus . [5]
Dendronotus dalli feeds on the hydroids Abietinaria rigida and Abietinaria amphora , family Sertulariidae. [6]
Rudolph Bergh, full name Ludvig Sophus Rudolph Bergh, was a Danish physician and malacologist. He worked in Copenhagen.
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