Doriopsilla albopunctata: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Nudibranchia
- Family
- Dendrodorididae
- Genus
- Doriopsilla
- Species
- Doriopsilla albopunctata
- Scientific Name
- Doriopsilla albopunctata
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Doriopsilla albopunctata
Doriopsilla albopunctata, the white-spotted sea goddess, is a species of dorid nudibranch, a colorful sea slug, in the family Dendrodorididae. It is native to the Pacific Coast of North America, from Mendocino County, California south, possibly to Baja California Peninsula, Mexico.
There are five other species that are quite similar to Doriopsilla albopunctata and can be confused with it: Doriopsilla bertschi (Hoover, Lindsay, Goddard & Valdés, 2015), Doriopsilla davebehrensi (Hoover, Lindsay, Goddard & Valdés, 2015), Doriopsilla fulva (MacFarland, 1905), Doriopsilla gemela (Gosliner, Schaefer & Millen, 1999), and Baptodoris mimetica (Gosliner, 1991).
...Doriopsilla albopunctata in languages:
- English
- White-spotted Sea Goddess
- English
- White-spotted Porostome
- English
- White-spotted Dorid
Images from inaturalist.org observations:
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Doriopsilla albopunctata
- Doriopsilla areolata
- Doriopsilla aurea
- Doriopsilla bertschi
- Doriopsilla capensis
- Doriopsilla carneola
- Doriopsilla davebehrensi
- Doriopsilla debruini
- Doriopsilla elitae
- Doriopsilla espinosai
- Doriopsilla evanae
- Doriopsilla fulva
- Doriopsilla gemela
- Doriopsilla janaina
- Doriopsilla miniata
- Doriopsilla nigrocera
- Doriopsilla nigrolineata
- Doriopsilla pallida
- Doriopsilla peculiaris
- Doriopsilla pelseneeri
- Doriopsilla rarispinosa
- Doriopsilla rowena
- Doriopsilla spaldingi
- Doriopsilla tishae

























































































































