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Okenia leachii

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Okenia leachii
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Superfamily: Onchidoridoidea
Family: Goniodorididae
Genus: Okenia
Species:
O. leachii
Binomial name
Okenia leachii
(Alder & Hancock, 1855) [1] [2]

Okenia leachii is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Goniodorididae.

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Distribution

This species was first described from Whitburn, North Sea with additional specimens from the Hebrides and Torbay. [2]

Description

This goniodorid nudibranch is translucent white in colour, with brilliant white pigment on the pallial tentacles, rhinophores and gills.

Ecology

Okenia leachii probably feeds on tunicates such as Molgula occulta, family Molgulidae which live buried in muddy sand seabeds. [3]

References

  1. ↑ Alder J. & Hancock A. (1854). Notice of some new species of British Nudibranchiata. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. ser. 2, 14: 102-105.
  2. 1 2 Alder, J., & A. Hancock. 1855. A monograph of the British nudibranchiate Mollusca: with figures of all the species. Pt. 7, pp. 1-54, fam. 1, pls. 21a, 27; fam. 2, pls. 1, 2; fam. 3, pls. 38a, 45-48. Appendix, pp. i-xl. Ray Society London.
  3. ↑ Picton, B.E. & Morrow, C.C. (2016). Okenia leachii (Alder & Hancock, 1855). [In] Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland. Accessed on 2016-08-02.
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