Description ³

Light body with white flecking, cerata brown with light bands. In California this cosmopolitan nudibranch of invaded bays and fouling communities is only known from Lake Merritt in Oakland. Some have even taken to calling it the Lake Merritt Cuthona, even though it was described from elsewhere. Interestingly, no one knows where it originally came from!

Sources and Credits

1. (c) Ken-ichi Ueda, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Ken-ichi Ueda
2. (c) Terry Gosliner, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), uploaded by Terry Gosliner
3. Adapted by Robin Gwen Agarwal from a work by (c) Ken-ichi Ueda, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

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