Nudi Pixel: Nudibranchs and Sea Slugs Identification with Photographs

Geitodoris planata

Photographed by: Iddo Lange

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Opisthobranchia
Order:	Nudibranchia
Suborder:	Doridina
Family:	Dorididae
Species:	Geitodoris planata

This dorid nudibranch is characterised externally by the row of about 5 star-shaped white patches, each centred on a small white pustule, down each side of the mantle from behind the rhinophores to the level of the gills.

Locality:

• Netherlands
  • Zeeland (5) Mar, Apr, May, Oct

 

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