Description ⁶

The White Knight or Salt-and-Pepper Dorid is occasionally abundant, but usually infrequent in the intertidal. It's quite small, usually under 1 cm, but its bright white coloration often makes it stand out against a background of darker algae.

Distribution ⁷

This marine species occurs off British Columbia, Canada to Baja California, Mexico.

Sources and Credits

1. (c) Robin Agarwal (ANudibranchMom on iNaturalist), some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), https://www.flickr.com/photos/30314434@N06/27286882203/
2. (c) Robin Agarwal (ANudibranchMom on iNaturalist), some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), https://www.flickr.com/photos/30314434@N06/28502827192/
3. (c) Robin Agarwal (ANudibranchMom on iNaturalist), some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), https://www.flickr.com/photos/30314434@N06/19682319240/
4. (c) Ken-ichi Ueda, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Ken-ichi Ueda
5. (c) Ken-ichi Ueda, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Ken-ichi Ueda, http://www.flickr.com/photos/18024068@N00/502687278
6. (c) Ken-ichi Ueda, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)
7. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegires_albopunctatus

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