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Chromodoris roboi
Gosliner & Behrens, 1998
Order: NUDIBRANCHIA
Suborder: DORIDINA
Family: Chromodorididae
DISTRIBUTION
Tropical Western Pacific.
PHOTO
UPPER: 12 meters, off Kurnell, Botany Bay, Sydney, N.S.W. Australia, 9 April 2000. Approx 2cm long. PHOTO: Akos Lumnitzer.
LOWER: Western Australian specimen with unusual colour pattern of lines rather than spots. Fremantle, near Perth, 30 March 1980. PHOTO: Hanne Just.
See messages below for a range of colour variation.
Reference:
• Gosliner, T.M. & Behrens, D.W. (1998) Five new species of Chromodoris (Mollusca: Nudibranchia: Chromodorididae) from the tropical Indo-Pacific Ocean. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 50(5): 139-165.
Rudman, W.B., 1998 (April 4) Chromodoris roboi Gosliner & Behrens, 1998. [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet/chrorob
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