Okenia leachii
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| Illustration accompanying the original description in A monograph of the British nudibranchiate Mollusca | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Suborder: | Doridina |
| Superfamily: | Onchidoridoidea |
| Family: | Goniodorididae |
| Genus: | Okenia |
| Species: | O. leachii
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| Binomial name | |
| Okenia leachii | |
Okenia leachii is a species of sea slug, a Dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Goniodorididae.
Distribution[edit]
This species was first described from Whitburn, North Sea with additional specimens from the Hebrides and Torbay.[2]
Description[edit]
This goniodorid nudibranch is translucent white in colour, with brilliant white pigment on the pallial tentacles, rhinophores and gills.
Ecology[edit]
Okenia leachii probably feeds on tunicates such as Molgula occulta, family Molgulidae which live buried in muddy sand seabeds.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ Alder J. & Hancock A. (1854). Notice of some new species of British Nudibranchiata. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. ser. 2, 14: 102-105.
- ^ a b Alder, J., & A. Hancock. 1855. A monograph of the British nudibranchiate Mollusca: with figures of all the species. Pt. 7, pp. 1-54, fam. 1, pls. 21a, 27; fam. 2, pls. 1, 2; fam. 3, pls. 38a, 45-48. Appendix, pp. i-xl. Ray Society London.
- ^ Picton, B.E. & Morrow, C.C. (2016). Okenia leachii (Alder & Hancock, 1855). [In] Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland. Accessed on 2016-08-02.