Felimare fontandraui

Felimare fontandraui

''Felimare fontandraui'' is a species of colourful dorid nudibranch, a type of sea slug, in the family Chromodorididae.
Hypselodoris fontandraui This is quite a bad picture made in 21 Sep 2010 during a dive in the Island of Benidorm, Alicante, Spain. For quite a while I wondered which species it was and today while arranging my nudibranch picture collection in Flickr I looked online and finally found the correct sp so I am adding it to JD. I hope that Covid will let us eventually travel again to our dive destinations and that I will be able to find again this nice Mediterranean nudi for a better picture :-)
http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/hypsfont Felimare fontandraui,Geotagged,Spain,Summer

Appearance

''Felimare fontandraui'' typically has a blue to purple body with yellow lines running down its sides and a single yellow-cream line on its upper dorsum. The upper dorsum is also often marked with light blue streaks near the mantle edge. Its mantle is edged in orange and it has black-purple gills and rhinophores. There is considerable colour variation within this species.

This species can reach a total length of at least 30 mm and has been observed feeding on yellow sponges from the genus ''Dysidea''.

Distribution

This nudibranch is known from the Eastern Atlantic Ocean and the Western Mediterranean.

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Taxonomy
KingdomAnimalia
DivisionMollusca
ClassGastropoda
OrderNudibranchia
FamilyChromodorididae
GenusFelimare
SpeciesF. fontandraui
Photographed in
Spain