Orienthella cooperi

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Orienthella cooperi
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Orienthella cooperi from Fitzgerald Marine Reserve, California
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Cladobranchia
Superfamily: Fionoidea
Family: Flabellinidae
Genus: Orienthella
Species:
O. cooperi
Binomial name
Orienthella cooperi
(Cockerell, 1901) [1]

Orienthella cooperi is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Flabellinidae. [2]

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Distribution

This species is known from the California Current region from Elkhorn Slough, California south to Bahia San Quintin, Baja California, Mexico. [3]

Description

Orienthella cooperi - adult and juvenile - from Santa Cruz, California Flabellina cooperi - adult and juvenile - from Santa Cruz, California.jpg
Orienthella cooperi - adult and juvenile - from Santa Cruz, California

Orienthella cooperi has a translucent white body with a stripe of white surface pigment along the middle of the back. This line forks in front of the rhinophores and may continue onto the oral tentacles. There are small white pigment spots on the outer part of the oral tentacles and rhinophores. The cerata contain green digestive gland and have a sprinkling of white spots in the outer part, below the cnidosacs.

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References

  1. Cockerell, T. D. A. 1901. Three new nudibranchs from California. Journal of Malacology 8(3):85-87.
  2. Bouchet, P. (2015). Flabellina cooperi (Cockerell, 1901). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-10-25
  3. Flabellina cooperi At: iNaturalist.org