#4808 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Monterey Dorid
🇳🇱 Monterey-citroenslak ·Doris montereyensis
🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 outside Europe
📍 Inside Beach
📍 Santa Cruz Harbor Path, Santa Cruz, CA, US
📍 Mission Bay, San Diego, CA, USA
📍 Cannon Beach
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © karin fletcher · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Robin Gwen Agarwal · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © ponkyjoe · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Ken-ichi Ueda · CC BY 4.0
- 5. © Ken-ichi Ueda · CC BY 4.0
- 6. © Ken-ichi Ueda · CC BY 4.0
- 7. Inside Beach:© Erin McKittrick · CC BY 4.0
- 8. Santa Cruz Harbor Path, Santa Cruz, CA, US:© macrocystis · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Mission Bay, San Diego, CA, USA:© Siobhan O'Neill · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Cannon Beach:© Fern · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
what is it?
Doris montereyensis is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusk in the family Dorididae.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 18,160 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by James Graham Cooper in 1862 (164 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Monterey Dorid
- Nederlands
- Monterey-citroenslak
- scientific name
- Doris montereyensis
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Nudibranchia
- family
- Dorididae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 18,160
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1862 by James Graham Cooper
relatives· Dorididae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 47469, Wikidata Q3141582, GBIF 6519876, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.