Summary ²

Hermissenda opalescens is a species of brightly coloured sea slug or nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Facelinidae. H. opalaescens can be distinguished from H. crassicornis by the lack of a white stripe down the cerrata.

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2. Adapted by Alison Young from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermissenda opalescens

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