Orienthella cooperi is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Flabellinidae.[2]
| Orienthella cooperi | |
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| Orienthella cooperi from Fitzgerald Marine Reserve, California | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Suborder: | Cladobranchia |
| Superfamily: | Fionoidea |
| Family: | Flabellinidae |
| Genus: | Orienthella |
| Species: | O. cooperi
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| Binomial name | |
| Orienthella cooperi | |
Distribution
editThis species is known from the California Current region from Elkhorn Slough, California south to Bahia San Quintin, Baja California, Mexico.[3]
Description
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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.
References
edit- ^ Cockerell, T. D. A. 1901. Three new nudibranchs from California. Journal of Malacology 8(3):85-87.
- ^ Bouchet, P. (2015). Flabellina cooperi (Cockerell, 1901). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-10-25
- ^ Flabellina cooperi At: iNaturalist.org