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The Yellowish-Orange Spotted Chromodorid Nudibranch ( Risbecia pulchella [ Hypselodoris pulchella ] Rüppell & Leuckart , 1830 ) from the Sea of Fujairah , Gulf of Oman , Arab Sea , Indian Ocean . Photo by Divemaster Ola Mostafa Khalaf . 31.12.2016 . https :// www . facebook . com / photo . php ? fbid = 10155020653474831 & set = a . 10155020646989831.10 73742024.560519830 & type = 3 & theater
The Yellowish-Orange Spotted Chromodorid Nudibranch ( Risbecia pulchella [ Hypselodoris pulchella ] Rüppell & Leuckart , 1830 ) is a species of sea slug , a dorid nudibranch , a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chromodorididae .
Distribution
This species was described from the Red Sea . Hypselodoris pulchella is found in the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean from Kenya and Tanzania , the Comores , Réunion to Sri Lanka , Thailand and the Philippines ( Wikipedia ).
Description
Originally described from the Red Sea , where it coexists with the similarly coloured Risbecia ghardaqana and Chromodoris annulata . In the western Pacific there is another species , Risbecia imperialis , which differs externally only in the absence of the purple
Gazelle : The Palestinian Biological Bulletin - Number 154 – October 2017