Dendronotus albus

Dendronotus albus
Dendronotus albus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Nudipleura clade Nudibranchia clade Dexiarchia clade Cladobranchia clade Dendronotida
Superfamily:	Tritonioidea
Family:	Dendronotidae
Genus:	Dendronotus
Species:	D. albus
Binomial name
Dendronotus albus (Macfarland, 1966)

Dendronotus albus is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusk in the family Dendronotidae.^[1]

Distribution

This animal can be found along the west coast of North America from Alaska to Baja California.^[2]

Description

This species grows to a maximum length of 3.5 cm.^[3] It has an opaque white line on the 'tail' but usually has more than four pairs of cerata, (typically 5 to 7), and normally has an orange-yellow tipped cerata, although in rare cases this colour is absent.^[4]

Feeding habits

This species feeds on hydroids.^[5]

References

1. ^ Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (Ed.); Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdes A. & Warén A. 2005. Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology, 47(1–2). ConchBooks: Hackenheim, Germany. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997. 397 pp. http://www.vliz.be/Vmdcdata/imis2/ref.php?refid=78278
2. ^ http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet.cfm?base=dendiris
3. ^ http://www.sealifebase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=8357
4. ^ http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet.cfm?base=dendalbu
5. ^ http://www.seaslugforum.net/display.cfm?id=10969

Further reading

• Robilliard, G.A. (1970) The systematics and some aspects of the ecology of the genus Dendronotus (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia). The Veliger, 12(4): 433–479.

External links

• Sea slug forum