Nudi Pixel: Nudibranchs and Sea Slugs Identification with Photographs

Dendronotus frondosus

Photographed by: Gary McDonald

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Opisthobranchia
Order:	Nudibranchia
Suborder:	Dendronotina
Family:	Dendronotidae
Species:	Dendronotus frondosus

Present presumably copulating pair is a good example of an additional proof (along with the morphological characters) for belonging of both white and variegated
forms to single species Dendronotus frondosus.

this is white form of Dendronotus frondosus. It is quite variable species, but specimens with different colouration have same radula and reproductive system, that have confirmed by a recent study of the specimens from White and Barents Seas.

This species is widely distributed in the Russian seas from Barents and White to Japan Seas, typically intertidal - upper subtidal, probably as an exception was recorded from the depth 300 m.

Locality:

• Norway
  • Norway (4) Jan
• Russia
  • Barents Sea (1)
• USA
  • California (1)

 

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