| Borealea nobilis | |
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| Borealea nobilis from Gulen Dive Resort, Norway. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Suborder: | Cladobranchia |
| Superfamily: | Fionoidea |
| Family: | Flabellinidae |
| Genus: | Borealea |
| Species: | B. nobilis |
| Binomial name | |
| Borealea nobilis (A. E. Verrill, 1880) | |
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Borealea nobilis is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine heterobranch mollusc in the family Flabellinidae.
Distribution
Borealea nobilis was described from a single specimen dredged in 145 m depth off Cape Cod in 1879. It is widely distributed in the northern Atlantic Ocean from Norway south to Ireland and on the North American coast south to New England.
Description
This species is translucent white with opaque white markings. The digestive gland in the cerata is either orange or red in colour. The rhinophores are pale yellow-brown in colour and covered with small papillae.
This species grows to 40–50 mm (4–5 cm) in length. The maximum recorded body length is 63 mm.
Ecology
Minimum recorded depth is 20 m. Maximum recorded depth is 190 m.
References
- Verrill A. E. (1880-1881). Notice of recent additions to the marine Invertebrata of the northeastern coast of America, with descriptions of new genera and species and critical remarks on others. Part II - Mollusca, with notes on Annelida, Echinodermata, etc, collected by the United States Fish Commission. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 3: 356-409
- Picton, B. (2017). Borealea nobilis (A. E. Verrill, 1880). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed on 2018-01-12.
- ITIS Retrieved July 5, 2012
- Rudman, W.B., 2001 (June 28) Flabellina nobilis (Verrill, 1880). Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Retrieved April 13, 2015
- seawater.no Retrieved July 5, 2012
- ^ Welch J. J. (2010). "The “Island Rule” and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". PLoS ONE 5(1): e8776. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008776.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Flabellina nobilis | |
| Coryphella nobilis | |