Coryphella cooperi
| Coryphella cooperi | |
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| Coryphella cooperi from Fitzgerald Marine Reserve, California | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Suborder: | Aeolidacea |
| Family: | Flabellinidae |
| Genus: | Coryphella |
| Species: | C. cooperi |
| Binomial name | |
| Coryphella cooperi | |
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Coryphella cooperi is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Flabellinidae[3] .
Description
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Coryphella cooperi has a translucent white body with a stripe of white surface pigment along the middle of the back. This line forks in front of the rhinophores and may continue onto the oral tentacles. There are small white pigment spots on the outer part of the oral tentacles and rhinophores. The cerata contain green digestive gland and have a sprinkling of white spots in the outer part, below the cnidosacs.[citation needed]
Some forms can be easily confused with Coryphella piunca and Coryphella trilineata, as well as suspected undescribed Orienthellids. C. cooperi distinguishes itself from C. piunca and C. trilineata by having smooth rhinophores as opposed to annulate, and from undescribed Orienthellids by having a white line on its notum, as opposed to no white markings.
References
[edit]- ↑ Cockerell, T. D. A. 1901. Three new nudibranchs from California. Journal of Malacology 8(3):85-87.
- ↑ Bieler R, Bouchet P, Gofas S, Marshall B, Rosenberg G, La Perna R, Neubauer TA, Sartori AF, Schneider S, Vos C, ter Poorten JJ, Taylor J, Dijkstra H, Finn J, Bank R, Neubert E, Moretzsohn F, Faber M, Houart R, Picton B, Garcia-Alvarez O (eds.). "Coryphella cooperi T. D. A. Cockerell, 1901". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 4 May 2025.
- ↑ Ekimova I., Carmona L., Mikhlina AL., Grishina D., Stanovova M.V., Schepetov D.M., Hoover C., de Souza-Canal J., Kuznetsov K.O., Valdés A.; (2026). Neither "lumpers" nor "splitters": A global revision of Flabellinidae s.l. nudibranchs (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Nudibranchia). PLoS One 21(5): e0347759.
