Summary ³

The Spanish dancer, scientific name Hexabranchus sanguineus (literally meaning "blood-colored six-gills"), is a dorid nudibranch, a very large and colorful sea slug, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Hexabranchidae.

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2. (c) rowanwattpringle, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by rowanwattpringle
3. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexabranchus_sanguineus

More Info

• iNat taxon page
• Animal Diversity Web
• Atlas of Living Australia
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• Sea Slugs of Hawaii
• SeaLifeBase
• World Register of Marine Species
• 日本のレッドデータ検索システム

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