Coryphella cooperi

Coryphella cooperi
Coryphella cooperi from Fitzgerald Marine Reserve, California
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Cladobranchia
Superfamily: Fionoidea
Family: Coryphellidae
Genus: Coryphella
Species:
C. cooperi
Binomial name
Coryphella cooperi
(Cockerell, 1901)[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Flabellina cooperi (Cockerell, 1901)
  • Orienthella cooperi (Cockerell, 1901)

Coryphella cooperi is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Coryphellidae.

Description

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.

References

  1. ^ Cockerell, T. D. A. 1901. Three new nudibranchs from California. Journal of Malacology 8(3):85-87.
  2. ^ 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.