Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Chromolaichma dalli
Doridáceo de dall, Dall doris
Length: 47 mm.
Shallow water (less than 200 m depth), rocks in intertidal and sublittoral.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Nudibranchia
Suborder
Euctenidiacea
Superfamily
Doridoidea
Family
Chromodorididae
Genus
Chromolaichma
Species
dalli
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Chromodoris dalli Bergh, 1879 (original combination), Chromodoris banksi Farmer, 1963, Chromodoris banksi banksi Farmer, 1963, Chromodoris banksi sonora Er. Marcus & Ev. Marcus, 1967, Chromodoris sonora Marcus & Marcus, 1967, Glossodoris dalli (Bergh, 1879) (Horton et al., 2021)
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: (f. dalli) Gulf of California to Costa Rica and Ecuador (Galapagos Islands)
- Finet, Y. (1991) The Marine Mollusks of the Galapagos Islands. In: Galápagos Marine Invertebrate. Taxonomy, Biogeography, and Evolution in Darwin's Islands. Plenum Press. New York and London, p. 253-280.
- Finet, Y. (2001) The marine mollusks of the Galapagos Islands: a documented faunal list. Editions du Muséum d' Histoire naturelle, Genève, 237 pp.
- Gosliner, T.M. (1991) The Opisthobranch Gastropod Fauna of the Galapagos Islands. In: M.J. James (ed.): Galápagos marine invertebrates. Taxonomy, biogeography, and evolution in Darwin´s islands. Plenum Press. New York and London, p. 281-305.
- Hickman, C.P. Jr. Finet, Y. (1999) A Field Guide to the Marine Molluscs of Galápagos. Sugar Spring Press, Lexington, Virginia, 150 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.
- Keen, A.M. (1958) Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, 1st edition, 624 pp.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Chromolaichma dalli", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19828. Accessed 5 June 2026.