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Doriopsilla Albopunctata
''Doriopsilla albopunctata'', the white-spotted sea goddess, is a species of dorid nudibranch, a colorful sea slug, in the family Dendrodorididae. It is native to the Pacific Coast of North America, from Mendocino County, California south, possibly to Baja California Peninsula, Mexico. There are five other species that are quite similar to ''Doriopsilla albopunctata'' and can be confused with it: '' Doriopsilla bertschi'' (Hoover, Lindsay, Goddard & Valdés, 2015), '' Doriopsilla davebehrensi'' (Hoover, Lindsay, Goddard & Valdés, 2015), '' Doriopsilla fulva'' (MacFarland, 1905), '' Doriopsilla gemela'' (Gosliner, Schaefer & Millen, 1999), and ''Baptodoris mimetica'' ( Gosliner, 1991).Hoover C., Lindsay T., Goddard J.H.R. & Valdés A. (2015)''Seeing double: pseudocryptic diversity in the ''Doriopsilla albopunctata–Doriopsilla gemela'' species complex of the north-eastern Pacific.Zoologica Scripta. 44: 612-631. Distribution This species is found from Mendocino to San Diego, Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Graham Cooper
James Graham Cooper (June 19, 1830 – July 19, 1902) was an American surgeon and naturalist. Cooper was born in New York. He worked for the California Geological Survey (1860–1874) with Josiah Dwight Whitney, William Henry Brewer and Henry Nicholas Bolander. He was primarily a zoologist, but he also made significant botanical collections from San Diego to Fort Mohave, Arizona in 1861. Cooper was active in the California Academy of Sciences, eventually becoming Director of the Museum. He obtained his medical degree in 1851 and practiced in New York City until 1853. Spencer F. Baird, the Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution at that time, helped Cooper work with the Pacific railroad survey parties working in the Washington Territory. He joined this survey under Captain George McClellan as a surgeon until 1854. In 1855 he visited San Francisco and the Panama Isthmus. He collected many birds during this expedition. In 1860, he returned west and joined the Blake Expe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doriopsilla Fulva
''Doriopsilla fulva'' is a species of dorid nudibranch, a sea slug, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusk in the family Dendrodorididae.Bouchet, P. (2015)''Doriopsilla fulva'' (MacFarland, 1905).In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-12-13. Distribution This species is found from Point Loma, San Diego to Humboldt County California. Description This nudibranch can grow as large as 33 mm. It is pale yellow in colour, with dots of opaque white on the tips of the dorsal tubercles but not between the tubercles. The rhinophores have 10-12 lamellae and a pale yellow club with a white stalk. The gills are white with five pinnae. It has frequently been confused with ''Doriopsilla albopunctata ''Doriopsilla albopunctata'', the white-spotted sea goddess, is a species of dorid nudibranch, a colorful sea slug, in the family Dendrodorididae. It is native to the Pacific Coast of North America, from Mendocino County, California south, possi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cliona Californiana
''Cliona californiana'', the yellow boring sponge, boring sponge or sulphur sponge, is a species of demosponge belonging to the family Clionaidae. It is native to the north-eastern Pacific Ocean and burrows into the shell valves of bivalve molluscs. Description The yellow boring sponge inhabits living bivalve molluscs, boring into the shell valves. The only parts of the sponge which are visible from the outside are small yellow patches up to in diameter, sometimes containing small oscula (openings). The sponge spicules are silicaceous (glassy) and are scattered throughout the sponge tissues. They consist entirely of megascleres known as "tylostyles", which are a kind of spicule with a single shaft, with a point on one end and a knob on the other. These characteristic spicules distinguish this sponge from any other sponge species found in the locality. Distribution and habitat The yellow boring sponge is native to the north-eastern Pacific Ocean, its range extending from Alas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bahía De Los Ángeles
("Bay of the Angels") is a coastal bay on the Gulf of California, located along the eastern shore of the Baja California Peninsula in the state of Baja California, Mexico. The town of the same name is located at the east end of Federal Highway 12 about 42 miles (68 km) from the Parador Punta Prieta junction on Federal Highway 1. The area is part of the San Quintín Municipality. Tourism, especially ecotourism and nature education is very important to the community of Bahía de Los Ángeles. There is combined natural history museum and cultural history museum in the community. This small town is headquarters for access to the many islands of this part of the northern Gulf of California, and noteworthy for the World Heritage Site designation by the United Nations. History The area was known as Adac to the Cochimí people, the aboriginal inhabitants of the central part of the Baja California peninsula. In the early 1600s there were approximately 3000 Cochimi inhabiting the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhinophore
A rhinophore is one of a pair of chemosensory club-shaped, rod-shaped or ear-like structures which are the most prominent part of the external head anatomy in sea slugs, marine gastropod opisthobranch mollusks such as the nudibranchs, sea hares (Aplysiomorpha), and sap-sucking sea slugs (Sacoglossa). Etymology The name relates to the rhinophore's function as an organ of "smell". ''Rhino-'' means nose from Ancient Greek ῥίς ''rhis'' and from its genitive ῥινός ''rhinos''. "Phore" means "to bear" from New Latin ''-phorus'' and from Greek -phoros (φορος) "bearing", a derivative of ''phérein'' (φέρειν). Function Rhinophores are scent or taste receptors, also known as chemosensory organs situated on the dorsal surface of the head. They are primarily used for distance chemoreception and rheoreception (response to water current). The "scents" detected by rhinophores are chemicals dissolved in the sea water. The fine structure and hairs of the rhinophor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and to the east by the Gulf of Mexico. Mexico covers ,Mexico ''''. . making it the world's 13th-largest country by are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Diego County, California
San Diego County (), officially the County of San Diego, is a county in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 3,298,634, making it California's second-most populous county and the fifth-most populous in the United States. Its county seat is San Diego, the second-most populous city in California and the eighth-most populous city in the United States. It is the southwesternmost county in the 48 contiguous United States, and is a border county. It is also home to 18 Native American tribal reservations, the most of any county in the United States. San Diego County comprises the San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is the 17th most populous metropolitan statistical area and the 18th most populous primary statistical area of the United States as of July 1, 2012. San Diego County is also part of the San Diego–Tijuana transborder metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area shar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terrence Gosliner
Publius Terentius Afer (; – ), better known in English as Terence (), was a Roman Africans, Roman African playwright during the Roman Republic. His comedies were performed for the first time around 166–160 BC. Terentius Lucanus, a Roman Roman Senate, senator, brought Terence to Rome as a slave, educated him and later on, impressed by his abilities, manumission, freed him. It is thought that Terence abruptly died, around the age of 25, likely in Greece or on his way back to Rome, due to shipwreck or disease. DEAD LINK He was supposedly on his way to explore and find inspiration for his comedies. His plays were heavily used to learn to speak and write in Latin during the Middle Ages and Renaissance , Renaissance Period, and in some instances were imitated by William Shakespeare. One famous quotation by Terence reads: "''Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto''", or "I am human, and I think nothing human is alien to me." This appeared in his play ''Heauton Timorumenos''. B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baptodoris Mimetica
''Baptodoris mimetica'' is a species of sea slug or dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Discodorididae.Rosenberg, G. (2015)''Baptodoris mimetica'' Gosliner, 1991.In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-12-14. Distribution This species was described from Asilomar State Park, Pacific Grove, California, with additional specimens from Santa Cruz, Carmel and Isla San Martin, Baja California, Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema .... Description Ecology References Discodorididae Gastropods described in 1991 {{Discodorididae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doriopsilla Gemela
''Doriopsilla gemela'' is a species of dorid nudibranch, a colourful sea slug, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusk in the family Dendrodorididae. There are five other species that are quite similar to this species and can be confused with it, and they are: ''Doriopsilla albopunctata'' (Cooper, 1863), '' Doriopsilla bertschi'' Hoover, Lindsay, Goddard & Valdés, 2015, '' Doriopsilla davebehrensi'' Hoover, Lindsay, Goddard & Valdés, 2015, '' Doriopsilla fulva'' (MacFarland, 1905) and ''Baptodoris mimetica'' Gosliner, 1991.Hoover C., Lindsay T., Goddard J.H.R. & Valdés A. (2015)"Seeing double: pseudocryptic diversity in the ''Doriopsilla albopunctata–Doriopsilla gemela'' species complex of the north-eastern Pacific."Zoologica Scripta. 44: 612-631. Distribution This species was described from the intertidal zone, Hill Street, San Diego, California. Description This nudibranch can grow as large as 25 mm. It can be dark yellow to orange in colour, but always with very small ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doriopsilla Davebehrensi
''Doriopsilla davebehrensi'' is a species of dorid nudibranch, a colourful sea slug, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dendrodorididae.Bouchet, P. (2016)''Doriopsilla davebehrensi'' Hoover, Lindsay, Goddard & Valdés, 2015.In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-12-14. There are five other species that are quite similar to this species and can be confused with it, and they are: ''Doriopsilla albopunctata'' (Cooper, 1863), '' Doriopsilla bertschi'' Hoover, Lindsay, Goddard & Valdés, 2015, ''Doriopsilla fulva'' (MacFarland, 1905), ''Doriopsilla gemela'' Gosliner, Schaefer & Millen, 1999 and ''Baptodoris mimetica'' Gosliner, 1991. Distribution This species was described from Bahía de los Ángeles, Baja California, Mexico. A specimen was also found at Newport Bay, California. Description This nudibranch can grow as large as 32 mm. It can be dark yellow or orange in colour, but always with very small opaque white d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. Other ways of defining species include their karyotype, DNA sequence, morphology, behaviour or ecological niche. In addition, paleontologists use the concept of the chronospecies since fossil reproduction cannot be examined. The most recent rigorous estimate for the total number of species of eukaryotes is between 8 and 8.7 million. However, only about 14% of these had been described by 2011. All species (except viruses) are given a two-part name, a "binomial". The first part of a binomial is the genus to which the species belongs. The second part is called the specific name or the specific epithet (in botanical nomenclature, also sometimes i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
