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Flabellina bicolor

Flabellina bicolor
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Superfamily: Flabellinoidea
Family: Flabellinidae
Genus: Flabellina
Species: F. bicolor
Binomial name
Flabellina bicolor
(Kelaart, 1858)

Flabellina bicolor is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine heterobranch mollusc in the family Flabellinidae.

This species was described from Ceylon. It is widely distributed in the Indo-Pacific region. In Hawaii it can be commonly found in Big Island, Maui, Oahu, Niihau, Laysan, Midway and Kure.

Flabellina bicolor can grow to a maximum length of 20 mm and has a translucent body and white tips to the oral tentacles. There is an orange band near the tip of the rhinophores and on each of the cerata. Animals from different regions show subtle differences in coloration and in the shape of the oral tentacles and may be members of a species complex.


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