Jorunna pardus
Jorunna pardus is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Discodorididae.[2]
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Nudipleura clade Nudibranchia clade Euctenidiacea clade Doridacea |
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| Species: | J. pardus |
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| Jorunna pardus Behrens & Henderson, 1981[1] | |
Distribution
This species was described from California. It is found from southern California to Sacramento Reef, Baja California. It lives on or under rocks in the intertidal and subtidal, from 5 to 18 m depth.[3]
Description
This species is similar in colouration to Jorunna parva from Japan, but a much bigger animal when fully grown. It reaches at least 50 mm in length.[3] Its gills and rhinophores are brown instead of pale with brown edges.[4]
References
- Behrens, D. & Henderson, R., 1981. Two new cryptobranch dorid nudibranchs from California. Veliger, 24: 120–128.
- Bouchet, P. (2015). Jorunna pardus Behrens & Henderson, 1981. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-10-11
- Camacho-García Y.E. & Gosliner T.M. (2008). Systematic revision of Jorunna Bergh, 1876 (Nudibranchia: Discodorididae) with a morphological phylogenetic analysis. Journal of Molluscan Studies 74: 143-181
- Rudman, W.B., 2001 (September 10) Jorunna pardus Behrens & Henderson, 1981. [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
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