Felimare malacitana is a species of colourful sea slug or dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chromodorididae.[2][3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Family: | Chromodorididae |
| Genus: | Felimare |
| Species: | F. malacitana
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| Binomial name | |
| Felimare malacitana Luque, 1986[1]
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Distribution
editThis nudibranch is known only from the Mediterranean near Spain.[4]
Description
editFelimare malacitana has a dark blue-black body and is covered in yellow specks. The mantle edge has bands of blue-yellow-black-yellow-blues lines. The gills and rhinophores are opaque light-blue lined with fine yellow.[5]
This species can reach a total length of at least 20 millimetres (0.79 in).[4]
References
edit- ^ Luque, A. 1986. Contribución al conocimiento de los Moluscos Gasterópodos de las costas de Málaga y Granada. Editorial de la Universidad Complutense, Madrid, 695 pp.
- ^ a b Bouchet, P. (2015). Felimare malacitana (Luque, 1986). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-11-18.
- ^ Johnson R.F. & Gosliner T.M. (2012) Traditional taxonomic groupings mask evolutionary history: A molecular phylogeny and new classification of the chromodorid nudibranchs. PLoS ONE 7(4): e33479
- ^ a b Rudman, W.B., 2001 (October 28) Hypselodoris malacitana Luque, 1986. [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
- ^ Ortea, J., Valdés, A. & García-Gómez, J.C. (1996) Revisión de las especies atlánticas de la familia Chromodorididae (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) de grupo cromático azul. Avicennia, 1996, Suppl. 1: 1-165.