Caloria elegans

Caloria elegans
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Dexiarchia
clade Cladobranchia
clade Aeolidida

Superfamily: Aeolidioidea
Family: Facelinidae
Subfamily: Facelininae
Genus: Caloria
Species: C. elegans
Binomial name
Caloria elegans
(Alder & Hancock, 1845)
Synonyms
  • Acanthopsole quatrefagesi Vayssière 1888
  • Caloria maculata Trinchese, 1888 (type species)
  • Eolis elegans Alder & Hancock, 1845 (basionym)
  • Eolis peregrina Costa, A., 1866

Caloria elegans is a species of colorful sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Facelinidae.

Description

The size of the body varies between 20 mm and 35 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in European waters from the British Isles to the Mediterranean Sea; also off the Canary Islands, the Azores and Madeira.

References

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