Felimare picta

Felimare picta
Felimare picta at a depth of 17 meters
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Nudipleura clade Nudibranchia
Superfamily:	Doridoidea
Family:	Chromodorididae
Genus:	Felimare Rudman, 1987
Species:	F. picta
Binomial name
Felimare picta (Schultz in Philippi, 1836)
Synonyms
Chromodoris cantrainii Bergh, 1879 Chromodoris elegans (Cantraine, 1835) Chromodoris valenciennesi (Cantraine, 1841) Doris calcarae Verany, 1846 Doris elegans Cantraine, 1835 (invalid: junior homonym of Doris elegans Quoy & Gaimard, 1832) Doris nardi Verany, 1846 Doris picta Schultz in Philippi, 1836 (basionym) Doris scacchi Delle Chiaje, 1841 Doris valenciennesi Cantraine, 1841 Glossodoris edenticulata White, 1952 Glossodoris picta (Schultz in Philippi, 1836) Glossodoris valenciennesi (Cantraine, 1841) Glossodoris webbi (d'Orbigny, 1839) Goniodoris elegans (Cantraine, 1835) Hypselodoris edenticulata (White, 1952) Hypselodoris elegans (Cantraine, 1835) Hypselodoris picta (Schultz in Philippi, 1836) Hypselodoris tema Edmunds, 1981 Hypselodoris valenciennesi (Cantraine, 1841) Hypselodoris webbi (d'Orbigny, 1839) Polycera webbi d'Orbigny, 1839

Felimare picta is a species of colorful sea slug or dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chromodorididae.

The subspecies of Felimare picta have yet to be renamed:

Felimare picta lives in rocky seabeds throughout the Mediterranean Sea (Greece), European waters (Spain, Portugal), the Eastern North Atlantic Ocean (Azores) and the Gulf of Mexico.

Type locality of Felimare picta is Palermo, Sicily.

This nudibranch grows to about 20 cm (8 inches) long and feeds on various sponges.

Minimum recorded depth is 0 m. Maximum recorded depth is 55 m.

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