Felimare californiensis
Species of gastropod
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Felimare californiensis, common name the California blue dorid, is a species of colourful sea slug or dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chromodorididae that eats dysideid sponges.[1][2]
| California blue dorid | |
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| Santa Cruz Island, South California | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Family: | Chromodorididae |
| Genus: | Felimare |
| Species: | F. californiensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Felimare californiensis (Bergh, 1879) | |
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Distribution
This nudibranch is found in the Eastern Pacific Ocean along the Californian coast from Monterey Bay through Baja California.[3] It became regionally extinct in the northern part of its range, disappearing completely from California by 1984. It reappeared beginning in 2003 and is now found in a few isolated places in California.[4] It has been shown to be synonymous with Felimare ghiselini.[5]
