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Dendronotus elegans White Nudibranch

Dendronotus elegans is commonly referred to as White Nudibranch. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for aquarium keeping. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.


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lexID:
11945 
AphiaID:
156710 
Scientific:
Dendronotus elegans 
German:
Elegante Bäumchenschnecke, Weiße Bäumchenschnecke 
English:
White Nudibranch 
Category:
Nudibranchi 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Nudibranchia (Order) > Dendronotidae (Family) > Dendronotus (Genus) > elegans (Species) 
Initial determination:
A. E. Verrill, 1880 
Occurrence:
Barents Sea, North Atlantic Ocean, Norway, Spitsbergen /Svalbard, Sweden, USA, White Sea 
Marine Zone:
Subtidal, sublittoral, infralittoral, deep zone of the oceans from the lower limit of the intertidal zone (intertidal) to the shelf edge at about 200 m water depth. neritic. 
Sea depth:
10 - 120 Meter 
Habitats:
Rocky, hard seabeds, Seawater, Sea water, Stony soils 
Size:
11,0 cm 
Temperature:
44.6 °F - 59 °F (7°C - 15°C) 
Food:
Food specialist, Hydrozoa polyps 
Difficulty:
Not suitable for aquarium keeping 
Offspring:
None 
Toxicity:
Toxic hazard unknown 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Red List:
Not evaluated (NE) 
Related species at
Catalog of Life
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More related species
in this lexicon
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Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2025-01-06 15:50:35 

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Dendronotus elegans A. E. Verrill, 1880

Dendronotus elegans was described from a specimen collected at 17 m depth at Velikaya Salma Strait, Kandalaksha Bay, White Sea, Russia.

The body colour is translucent white, pinkish or beige.

Similar to Dendronotus dalli and Dendronotus frondosus. It is distinguished from other Dendronotus species by the branching of the cerata, the smooth median tooth of the radula in adults and molecular characters.

Feed on Hydrozoons.

Synonymised names:
Dendronotus niveus Ekimova, Korshunova, Schepetov, Neretina, Sanamyan & Martynov, 2015

External links

  1. artsdatabanken (no). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  2. sealifebase (en). Abgerufen am 06.01.2025.
  3. Wikipedia (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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