Description ²

Ground color varies from bright yellow to orange or orange-brown, dorsum with minute tubercles and numerous tiny, white dots which are not restricted to the tips of tubercles. Rhinophores orange-yellow to yellow, with 7-18 lamellae. Branchial plumes 5-7, bi- or tripinnate, bright yellow to orange. Labial tentacles rudimentary. May be distinguished from Doriopsilla albopunctata which has white branchial plumes, and in which the white dots on the dorsum are on the tips of tubercles.

Size ²

Up to about 45mm in length.

Geographic Range ²

Elkhorn Slough, Monterey Co., CA to Bahía Tortugas, Baja California, Mexico.

Notes ²

Found in the low rocky intertidal and subtidal, and in bays and sloughs.

References ²

HOOVER, C., T. LINDSAY, J. H. R. GODDARD, & Á. VALDÉS. 2015. Seeing double: pseudocryptic diversity in the Doriopsilla albopunctata-Doriopsilla gemela species complex of the north-eastern Pacific. Zoologica Scripta 44(6):612-631. PDF

Additional Info ²

WoRMS

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