Dermatobranchus albineus


Dermatobranchus albineus, common name the white-ridged nudibranch, is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Arminidae.

Description

This species is small in size, with opaque white ridges along the body. The rhinophores are small, oval-shaped, and feature longitudinal ridges. This is a pale-bodied nudibranch featuring raised, opaque white longitudinal ridges.

Distribution

This species was described from Hottentots Huisie, Atlantic coast, Cape Peninsula, Cape Province, South Africa at 7 m depth. Multiple specimens from this locality and east as far as Algoa Bay, Port Elizabeth were included in the original description.