nudibranch

Circa 19th century, from Latin nudus (“naked”) + branchia (“gills”).

A sea slug belonging to the order Nudibranchia.


sea slug

sea slugs (plural)
sea-slug (alternative)

Any soft-bodied marine gastropod mollusks of the order Nudibranchia.


glaucus

From Ancient Greek γλαυκός (glaukós, “blue-green, blue-grey”).

der

Any member of the genus Glaucus of nudibranchiate mollusks, found in the warmer latitudes, swimming in the open sea, strikingly colored with blue and silvery white.


sea lemon

Any of several species of nudibranchs of the family Dorididae, having a smooth, thick, convex yellow body.


arminid

(zoology) Any of the sea slugs in the family Arminidae.


bornellid

(zoology) Any sea slug in the family Bornellidae.


chromodoridid

(zoology) Any sea slug of the family Chromodorididae


dendrodoridid

(zoology) Any sea slug in the family Dendrodorididae.


dendronotid

(zoology) Any sea slug in the family Dendronotidae.


doridid

(zoology) Any sea slug in the family Dorididae.


dotid

(zoology) Any sea slug in the family Dotidae.


dotoid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the Dotidae under the obsolete name Dotoidae.


eubranchid

(zoology) Any sea slug in the family Eubranchidae.


facelinid

(zoology) Any sea slug of the family Facelinidae.


fionid

(zoology) Any sea slug in the family Fionidae.


flabellinid

(zoology) Any of the family Flabellinidae of sea slugs.


glaucid

(zoology) Any nudibranch in the family Glaucidae.


goniodoridid

(malacology) Any sea slug in the family Goniodorididae.


hexabranchid

(zoology) Any sea slug in the family Hexabranchidae.


janolid

A third species of janolid has been collected from San Diego, California and was depicted by Behrens (1980, fig. 152).

Food abundance does not appear to be a limiting factor as many ectoproct colonies are devoid of janolids.

1982, Annals of the South African Museum, volume 86, page 40:

As an example, the up to now unknown structure and function of the janolid caruncle (see GOSLINER 1994) was investigated herein.

2003, Michael Schrödl, Sea slugs of southern South America, page 117:

(zoology) Any member of the Janolidae (synonym of Proctonotidae), a family of sea slugs.


phyllidiid

(zoology) Any sea slug in the family Phyllidiidae.


polyceratid

(zoology) Any sea slug in the family Polyceratidae.


polycerid

(zoology) Any sea slug in the family Polyceridae.


scyllaeid

(zoology) Any in the family Scyllaeidae of sea slugs.


tergipedid

(zoology) Any nudibranch in the family Tergipedidae.


tritoniid

(zoology) Any sea slug in the family Tritoniidae.


Nudibranchia

A taxonomic order within the class Gastropoda – soft-bodied, marine gastropod molluscs with notable coloration and forms.

Actinocyclidae

(order): Doridoidea, Eolidoidea, Porostomata - suborders


ghost nudibranch

en-noun

ghost nudibranch (plural ghost nudibranchs)

Lecithophorus capensis, a translucent dorid nudibranch found in South Africa.


dendronotacean

Most dendronotaceans do, however, feed on cnidarians, ranging from hydroids to sea anemones, sea whips, and sea pens, and scyphistomas of scyphozoan jellyfishes.

1990, Eugene N. Kozloff, Invertebrates, page 411:

A sea slug of the suborder Dendronotacea.


arminacean

But our classification is not really as unnatural as we have perhaps implied, because the arminaceans do have certain important features in common.

1976, Charles Maurice Yonge, Living marine molluscs, page 140:


aeolidacean

Aposematic nudibranchs had to have their «sting», like wasps, but, in the early 1970s, knowledge of these was limited to the cnidocysts of aeolidaceans, acid or repellent secretions from some testacean groups and the ink from aplysiaceans.

2007, Unity in Diversity: Reflections on Ecology after the Legacy of Ramon Margalef:


aeolid

Commonly called aeolids, these nudibranchs have cerata (usually in groups) along each side of the body, each ceras containing a duct of the digestive gland and usually having a cavity (cnidosac) to store ingested nematocysts in the tip, which distinguishes aeolids from all other nudibranchs.

2015, Robert Burn, Nudibranchs and Related Molluscs, page 204:


eolid

Any nudibranch of the former genus Eolidia


actinocyclid

Any sea slug of the family Actinocyclidae


aeolidiid

Any nudibranch of the family Aeolidiidae


cladobranch

Any nudibranch of the clade Cladobranchia.


海蛞蝓

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Fionoidea

A taxonomic superfamily within the order Nudibranchia – aeolid nudibranchs.


갯민숭달팽이

From 갯민숭 (gaenminsung) + 달팽이 (dalpaeng'i, “snail”).