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Limacea cockerelli
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Domain Eukarya
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Gastropoda
Order Opisthobranchia
Infraorder Doridina
Family Triophidae
Genus Limacea
Species cockerelli
Common Name: Laila cockerelli (Macfarland, 1905)
On a background of bryozoans, a macro image by Ryan Murphy, 2011
Limacea cockerelli
Image by Adam Harding, 2011
This is a very small dorid nudibranch, 15 mm in length, with elongate orange-tipped club-shaped tubercles around dorsal margin. Rhinophores bright red-orange.

We haven't photographed this nudibranch before, but due to its small size it has probably been overlooked until now.

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Lester B. Pearson College
Jan 2011
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