Chromodoris quadricolor
| Chromodoris quadricolor | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Nudipleura clade Nudibranchia |
| Superfamily: | Doridoidea |
| Family: | Chromodorididae |
| Genus: | Chromodoris |
| Species: | C. quadricolor |
| Binomial name | |
| Chromodoris quadricolor (Rueppell & Leuckart, 1828) | |
Chromodoris quadricolor is a species of very colourful sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusc.
The specific epithet quadricolor means four-coloured, so-named because this nudibranch is yellow, white, blue and black in color.
Distribution
This dorid nudibranch lives in the Western Indian Ocean.
References
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