Hypselodoris bullockii
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| Hypselodoris bullockii from Bima bay (Sumbawa, Indonesia) | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Nudipleura clade Nudibranchia |
| Superfamily: | Doridoidea |
| Family: | Chromodorididae |
| Genus: | Hypselodoris |
| Species: | H. bullockii |
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Hypselodoris bullockii (Collingwood, 1881) |
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Hypselodoris bullockii is a species of colourful sea slug or dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Chromodorididae.
Hypselodoris bullockii is quite variable in color. Hypselodoris apolegma, which looks similar to this species (and distinguished by a reticulate pattern gradually merging in to the pinkish purple ), and was assumed to be possibly a different color form of H. bullockii. However, recent phylogenetic data confirm the distinction of the two species, and suggest a sister species relationship between them.
This nudibranch is found in the Tropical Western Pacific Ocean and the eastern Indian Ocean.
Two very pale Hypselodoris bullockii of different sizes
The blue-color form, in Sipadan, Malaysia
A pale purple Hypselodoris bullockii
Hypselodoris bullockii, the dark purple color form, in a strong water current
A very pale purple Hypselodoris bullockii
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