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Felimida sphoni Ev. Marcus, 1971

Nudibanquio, Sea slug

Length: 40 mm

Intertidal and subtidal

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Mollusca

Class
Gastropoda

Order
Nudibranchia

Family
Chromodorididae

Genus
Felimida

Species
sphoni

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Chromodoris sphoni (Ev. Marcus, 1971) (Horton et al., 2021)

Origin: Native

Distribution

Distribution: This specie has been registered in México, Costa Rica, Panamá and Ecuador (Galapagos Islands)

References

  • Hickman, C.P. Jr. (1998) A Field Guide to Sea Stars and other Echinoderms of Galápagos. Sugar Spring Press, Lexington, Virginia, 83 pp.
  • Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Felimida sphoni", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=11654. Accessed 19 April 2025.