Borealea nobilis is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine heterobranch mollusc in the family Flabellinidae.[2]
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| Borealea nobilis from Gulen Dive Resort, Norway. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Suborder: | Cladobranchia |
| Superfamily: | Fionoidea |
| Family: | Flabellinidae |
| Genus: | Borealea |
| Species: | B. nobilis
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| Borealea nobilis (A. E. Verrill, 1880)[1]
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Distribution
editBorealea nobilis was described from a single specimen dredged in 145 m depth off Cape Cod in 1879. It is widely distributed in the northern Atlantic Ocean from Norway south to Ireland and on the North American coast south to New England.[3]
Description
editThis species is translucent white with opaque white markings. The digestive gland in the cerata is either orange or red in colour. The rhinophores are pale yellow-brown in colour and covered with small papillae.[4][5]
This species grows to 40–50 mm (4–5 cm) in length. The maximum recorded body length is 63 mm.[6]
Ecology
editMinimum recorded depth is 20 m.[6] Maximum recorded depth is 190 m.[6]
References
edit- ^ Verrill A. E. (1880-1881). Notice of recent additions to the marine Invertebrata of the northeastern coast of America, with descriptions of new genera and species and critical remarks on others. Part II - Mollusca, with notes on Annelida, Echinodermata, etc, collected by the United States Fish Commission. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 3: 356-409 [pp. 356-400 issued December 1880, 401-409 January 1881]
- ^ Picton, B. (2017). Borealea nobilis (A. E. Verrill, 1880). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed on 2018-01-12.
- ^ ITIS Retrieved July 5, 2012
- ^ Rudman, W.B., 2001 (June 28) Flabellina nobilis (Verrill, 1880). [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Retrieved April 13, 2015
- ^ seawater.no Retrieved July 5, 2012
- ^ a b c Welch J. J. (2010). "The “Island Rule” and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". PLoS ONE 5(1): e8776. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008776.