Description ²

Ground color translucent cream to brownish-pink, cerata same color, tips encrusted with opaque white, cores reddish-brown to pink or burnt umber. Oral tentacles & rhinophores translucent cream to pinkish-brown. Anterior foot corners rounded.

Size ²

Typically less than 20mm in length, but may reach 44mm.

Geographic Range ²

Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, to Pt. Loma, San Diego, CA.; boreo-arctic in North Atlantic: France, Norway, W. Greenland, & NE coast of North America as far south as New Hampshire.

Notes ²

Preys on the hydroid Hydractinia milleri. According to Cella, et al., 2016:16, Cuthona divae is now considered a junior synonym of C. nana.

References ²

CELLA, K., L. CARMONA, I. EKIMOVA, A. CHICHVARKHIN, D. SCHEPETOV, & T. M. GOSLINER. 2016. A radical solution: the phylogeny of the nudibranch family Fionidae. PLoS ONE 11(12):e0167800. [32 pp.] PDF

MACFARLAND, F. M. 1966. Studies of opisthobranchiate mollusks of the Pacific coast of North America. Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences 6:1-546, pls. 1-72. PDF

McDONALD, G. R. 1983. A review of the nudibranchs of the California coast. Malacologia 24(1-2):114-276. PDF

Synonyms ²

Cuthona divae, Precuthona divae Marcus, 1961, Cuthona rosea MacFarland, 1966

Additional Info ²

WoRMS

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