Hypselodoris paulinae

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Hypselodoris paulinae
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Family: Chromodorididae
Genus: Hypselodoris
Species:
H. paulinae
Binomial name
Hypselodoris paulinae
Gosliner & Johnson, 1999 [1]

Hypselodoris paulinae is a species of sea slug or dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chromodorididae.

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Distribution

This nudibranch is found in the Hawaiian Islands in the central Pacific Ocean. [2]

Description

Hypselodoris paulinae has a white-cream body which is covered all over with red-brown spots and lines. The gills and rhinophores are also white, lined with red. This species can reach a total length of at least 60 mm. [3] [4] It has some similarity to Hypselodoris kaname .

References

  1. ↑ Gosliner, T.M. & Johnson, R.F. (1999) Phylogeny of Hypselodoris (Nudibranchia: Chromodorididae) with a review of the monophyletic clade of Indo-Pacific species, including descriptions of twelve new species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 125: 1-114.
  2. ↑ Rudman, W.B., 1999 (August 25) Hypselodoris paulinae Gosliner & Johnson, 1999. [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
  3. ↑ Pittman, C. & Fiene, P., 2018. Hypselodoris paulinae Sea Slugs of Hawaii
  4. ↑ Gosliner, T.M., Behrens, D.W. & Valdés, Á., 2018. Nudibranch and Sea Slug Identification - Indo-Pacific. New World Publications; 2nd Revised, Updated edition. 452 pp. ISBN   1878348671, ISBN   978-1878348678, p. 189
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