Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Felimida baumanni
Doridáceo de Baumann, Slugs
(C. baumanni) Length: 62 mm
(C. baumanni) Shallow water (less than 200 m depth), intertidal and subtidal.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Nudibranchia
Suborder
Doridina
Superfamily
Chromodoridoidea
Family
Chromodorididae
Genus
Felimida
Species
baumanni
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Chromodoris baumanni Bertsch, 1970, Glossodoris baumanni (Bertsch, 1970) (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: (C. baumanni) Gulf of California to Ecuador including Galapagos Islands.
- 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.
- Hickman, C.P. Jr. (2008) A field guide to corals and other radiates of Galápagos. Sugar Spring Press, Lexington, Virginia, 162 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 baumanni", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19965. Accessed 4 June 2026.