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Hypselodoris pulchella Cute Risbecia, Beautiful Hypselodoris

Hypselodoris pulchellais commonly referred to as Cute Risbecia, Beautiful Hypselodoris. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for aquarium keeping. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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Hypselodoris pulchella, Mafia Island 2023


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lexID:
8078 
AphiaID:
597870 
Scientific:
Hypselodoris pulchella 
German:
Beautiful-Hypselodoris, Prachtsternschnecke 
English:
Cute Risbecia, Beautiful Hypselodoris 
Category:
Nudibranchs 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Nudibranchia (Order) > Chromodorididae (Family) > Hypselodoris (Genus) > pulchella (Species) 
Initial determination:
(Rüppell & Leuckart, ), 1830 
Occurrence:
Comores, Egypt, Indian Ocean, Kenya, Philippines, Red Sea, Sri Lanka, Tansania, Thailand, Western Indian Ocean 
Marine Zone:
Subtidal, sublittoral, infralittoral, deep zone of the oceans from the lower limit of the intertidal zone (intertidal) to the shelf edge at about 200 m water depth. neritic. 
Sea depth:
- 15 Meter 
Size:
3.15" - 4.33" (8cm - 11cm) 
Temperature:
71.6 °F - 80.6 °F (22°C - 27°C) 
Food:
Food specialist, Sponges 
Difficulty:
Not suitable for aquarium keeping 
Offspring:
None 
Toxicity:
Toxic hazard unknown 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Red List:
Not evaluated (NE) 
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
 
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Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2023-02-06 20:03:16 

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Hypselodoris pulchella (Rüppell & Leuckart, 1830)

The mantle edge of this colourfull sea slug is thin bluish. Mantle and foot are creamy white with numerous small yellowish-orange spots of different sizes.On the mantle is always a diffuse pattern of a pale violet-brown. The sensory tentacles are bluish and the gills vary from bluish to orange.Its often seen that two individuals following closely each other.

Hypselodoris pulchella feeds exclusively on sponges.

Very similar is Hypselodoris ghardaqana (the diffuse pattern of pale violet-brown is absent).

Synonymised names:
Chromodoris pulchella (Rüppell & Leuckart, 1830) · unaccepted
Doris pulchella Rüppell & Leuckart, 1830 · unaccepted (original combination)
Risbecia pulchella (Rüppell & Leuckart, 1830) · unaccepted

External links

  1. Medslugs - Dr. Peter Wirtz (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  2. seaunseen.com (en). Abgerufen am 06.02.2023.
  3. Wikipedia englisch (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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