New sea slug discovery in Florida


This video is about Chromodoris colemani, a nudibranch relative of the new species.

April 2011. Biologists with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), along with scientists from California State Polytechnic University, have identified a new marine species of nudibranch, Chromodoris fentoni, a type of shell-less snail found in the Gulf of Mexico: here.

Phylogeny and evolution of corambid nudibranchs (Mollusca: Gastropoda): here.

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