Felimare zebra
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Nudipleura clade Nudibranchia |
| Superfamily: | Doridoidea |
| Family: | Chromodorididae |
| Genus: | Felimare |
| Species: | F. zebra |
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Felimare zebra (Heilprin, 1889) |
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Felimare zebra, common name the zebra doris, is a colourful species of sea slug or dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chromodorididae.
This nudibranch is known only from Bermuda in the Atlantic Ocean.
Felimare zebra is a rather large nudibranch. It has a black body with longitudinal orange lines running along the body and dorsum. Its mantle edge is usually white, sometimes dotted with black spots. The gills are a translucent colour outlined in black, and its rhinophores are completely black. There is some colour variation in this species.
This species can reach a total length of at least 180 mm.
The maximum recorded length is 115 mm.
Minimum recorded depth is 1 m. Maximum recorded depth is 18 m.
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