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(Horned) Opalescent Nudibranch (Hermissenda crassicornis)
Subject: | (Horned) Opalescent Nudibranch (Hermissenda crassicornis)
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Date: 2005:02:14 00:26:32
Upload Date: 2005:02:14 00:31:46
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Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Hermissenda, Hermissenda crassicornis, also known as the Opalescent Sea Slug, is found in a variety of habitats including mud flats, rocky shores and wharf pilings. Its body is up to 80 mm long. Its dorsal surface has a single orange stripe and bright "electric blue lines, but otherwise is variable in color. Kodiak to Baja California.
Image ID: nerr0804, NOAA National Estuarine Research Reserve Collection
Location: North Puget Sound, Anacortes, Washington
Photo Source:
The NOAA Photo Library http://www.photolib.noaa.gov
The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Adminstration (NOAA) http://www.noaa.gov/
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Hermissenda crassicornis is a species of brightly coloured, sea slug or nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Facelinidae. Common names: Opalescent nudibranch, Opalescent sea slug, hermissenda. |
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