Chromodoris quadricolor

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Chromodoris quadricolor
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C. quadricolor
Binomial name
Chromodoris quadricolor
(Rueppell & Leuckart, 1828)

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Chromodoris quadricolor is a species of very colourful sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusc.

The specific epithet quadricolor means four-coloured, so-named because this nudibranch is yellow, white, blue and black in color.

Distribution

This dorid nudibranch lives in the Western Indian Ocean.

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Two individuals on a red sponge (possibly the food species), photographed at night off of Dahab, Egypt, in the Red Sea.


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