Summary ⁴

The California blue dorid, Felimare californiensis, is a species of colourful sea slug or dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chromodorididae that eats dysideid sponges.

Description ⁵

The body grows to a length of 90 mm.

Distribution ⁵

This nudibranch is found in the Eastern Pacific Ocean along the Californian coast from Monterey Bay through Baja California. It became regionally extinct in the northern part of its range, disappearing completely from California by 1984. It reappeared beginning in 2003 and is now found in a few isolated places in California.

Sources and Credits

1. (c) Robin Gwen Agarwal, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Robin Gwen Agarwal
2. (c) Jeff Goddard, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), https://www.flickr.com/photos/34486353@N07/5624724081/
3. (c) Fel gomez, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Felimare_Californiensis.jpg
4. Adapted by Robin Gwen Agarwal from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felimare_californiensis
5. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felimare_californiensis

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