Flabellinopsis iodinea; Spanish Shawl Nudibranch; <small>(shown with <a href=/cgi/img_query?where-taxon=Branching+bryozoan&title_tag=Branching+bryozoan>Branching bryozoan</a>)</small>

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Flabellinopsis iodinea; Spanish Shawl Nudibranch; (shown with Branching bryozoan)

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Flabellinopsis iodinea
Spanish Shawl Nudibranch
(shown with Branching bryozoan)

Photographer: Lovell and Libby Langstroth
Organization: California Academy of Sciences
Collection: CalAcademy

ID: 0000 0000 0305 0797 (2005-03-23)

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date of photo Jun 1983

latitude 34.00497 longitude -119.72547 max error distance 19344 meters View on Google Maps.

horizontal datum World Geodetic System 1984

georeferencing source GeoLocate

location Channel Islands National Park (Santa Barbara County, California, Santa Cruz Island, US)

family Flabellinidae

order Nudibranchia

class Gastropoda

habitat Subtidal

notes This beautiful nudibranch, about 35 mm long, feeds on the polyps of hydroids storing their stinging cells in its dorsal processes. These cells will serve in its defense. The brilliant colors may be a warning signal. When disturbed it swims by rapidly flexing its body laterally. It has a complex hermaphroditic reproductive system.

camera Nikonos

photo category: Animal - Invertebrate-Other

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common names Spanish Shawl, Purple Aeolis (ITIS ) Spanish Shawl Nudibranch (photographer)

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