Flabellina_iodinea

Intertidal Invertebrates of the Monterey Bay Area, California Compiled & photographed by Gary McDonald, Long Marine Laboratory, University of California, Santa Cruz
Flabellina iodinea (Cooper, 1862)
Spanish Shawl
Mollusca: Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia: Nudibranchia: Aeolidina: Flabellinidae
Geographic Range: Vancouver Is., British Columbia, Canada, to Bahia San Quintin, Baja California, Mexico; Galapagos Is., Ecuador.	Synonyms: Corypella iodinea, Coryphella sabulicola, Flabellinopsis iodinea.
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Sand Dollar Beach, Monterey Co., CA; 12 Dec 2008; 55mm total length; Jeff Goddard.	Description: Ground color translucent purple. Cerata borne on 5-8 or more pairs of low, crescent-like elevations of the dorsum edge, cerata are purple near base, shading gradually to brilliant orange distally; cores burnt sienna. Oral tentacles long (up to one third of body length), colored as body, paler distally. Rhinophores with 40-80 lamellae, shaft colored as body, clavus maroon to orange-red, with opaque white, antero-median ridge. Anterior foot corners tentaculiform. Size: Typically about 30mm in length, but may exceed 60mm. Notes: Feeds on the hydroid Eudendrium ramosum. This species can swim by flexing the body laterally, back and forth.
Sand Dollar Beach, Monterey Co., CA; 12 Dec 2008; 55mm total length; Jeff Goddard.	Sand Dollar Beach, Monterey Co., CA; 12 Dec 2008; 55mm total length; Jeff Goddard.
Sand Dollar Beach, Monterey Co., CA; 12 Dec 2008; 55mm total length; Jeff Goddard. Swimming.	Sand Dollar Beach, Monterey Co., CA; 27 May 2009; 50mm total length.
Sand Dollar Beach, Monterey Co., CA; 27 May 2009; 28mm total length.	Sand Dollar Beach, Monterey Co., CA; 27 May 2009; 22mm total length.
Sand Dollar Beach, Monterey Co., CA; 27 May 2009; 34mm total length.	Sand Dollar Beach, Monterey Co., CA; 27 May 2009; 48mm total length.

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