Hypselodoris nigrostriata
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Identification is verified by Richard Willan, Nudi Pixel expert
Comment from Richard Willan: The striped Hypselodoris in your photo is Hypselodoris nigrostriata because the lines are more or less oblique. In the very similar species, Hypselodoris zephyra the lines are parallel. I thought they were the same species, but then Rudie Kuiter showed me a lot of his pictures from Bali where both species seem to occur together and he has made a strong argument that they are separate in the new book Nudibranchs of the World. So I haven’t made up my mind yet. One other character supposedly only possessed by Hypselodoris nigrostriata is a yellow border to the mantle. I really cannot see this yellow band in the animal in your picture, so maybe that character is no good?
Taken in Seraya
| Location: | Bali, Indonesia |
| Photographer: | Erwin Kodiat |
| Camera: | Canon PowerShot A620 › View EXIF properties |
| Taken on: | November 10, 2007 |
| Viewed: | 461 times |
| Posted: | 11 months ago |
| Updated: | 10 months ago |
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Scientific Classification
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Opisthobranchia |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Suborder: | Doridina |
| Family: | Chromodorididae |
| Species: | Hypselodoris nigrostriata |