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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