Ziminella japonica is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine heterobranch mollusc in the family Paracoryphellidae.[1]
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| Species: | Z. japonica
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| Ziminella japonica (Volodchenko, 1937)[1]
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Description
editZ. japonica can grow up to a maximum length of 75 mm (3.0 in) and ceratal color varies from cream to yellow, orange and pink.[2]
Distribution
editThis species is widely distributed throughout British Columbia, Alaska, Japan, Siberia and Atlantic Canada to Massachusetts.[2]