''Jorunna pardus'' is a species of
sea slug
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, a dorid
nudibranch, a shell-less
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gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusc
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in the family
Discodorididae.
[Bouchet, P. (2015)]
''Jorunna pardus'' Behrens & Henderson, 1981.
In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-10-11
Distribution
This species was described from
California
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. It is found from southern California to Sacramento Reef, Baja California. It lives on or under rocks in the intertidal and subtidal, from 5 to 18 m depth.
[Camacho-García Y.E. & Gosliner T.M. (2008). Systematic revision of ''Jorunna'' Bergh, 1876 (Nudibranchia: Discodorididae) with a morphological phylogenetic analysis. Journal of Molluscan Studies 74: 143-181]
Description
This species is similar in colouration to ''
Jorunna parva'' from Japan, but a much bigger animal when fully grown. It reaches at least 50 mm in length.
[ Its gills and rhinophores are brown instead of pale with brown edges.][Rudman, W.B., 2001 (September 10]
''Jorunna pardus'' Behrens & Henderson, 1981.
n/nowiki> Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
References
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Discodorididae
Gastropods described in 1981