| Polaria polaris | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Suborder: | Cladobranchia |
| Family: | Paracoryphellidae |
| Genus: | Polaria |
| Species: | P. polaris |
| Binomial name | |
| Polaria polaris (Volodchenko, 1946 [1] | |
| Synonyms | |
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Polaria polaris is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine heterobranch mollusc in the family Paracoryphellidae. [2]
This species was described from the Arctic Ocean.
Polaria polaris is a flabellinid nudibranch with numerous closely spaced cerata and extremely long rhinophores. The body is translucent white and the digestive gland in the cerata is red. There is a broad band of opaque white pigment at the tip of the cerata. The rhinophores are smooth or slightly wrinkled and the oral tentacles have a splash of white pigment in the outer third. [3]