#4792 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Tricolored Felimare
🇳🇱 Paarse komeetslak ·Felimare tricolor
🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in Europe, not in NL
📍 Reserva del Toro, Illes Balears
📍 Sesimbra Municipality, Setubal, Portugal
📍 Blaumar
📍 Ferragudo, Faro, Portugal
📍 Granada, ES-AN, ES
📍 Setúbal, PT
📍 Girona, Spain
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Stefan · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Ana Santos · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © whodden · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. Reserva del Toro, Illes Balears:© Antoni López-Arenas i Cama · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. Sesimbra Municipality, Setubal, Portugal:© João Pedro Silva · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Blaumar:© Edu Alcaniz · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 7. Ferragudo, Faro, Portugal:© João Pedro Silva · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Granada, ES-AN, ES:© Stefan · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Setúbal, PT:© Thomas Belaoud · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Girona, Spain:© anthonyamar · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Felimare tricolor is a colourful species of sea slug or dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Chromodorididae.
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.
- 2,345 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Tricolored Felimare
- Nederlands
- Paarse komeetslak
- scientific name
- Felimare tricolor
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Nudibranchia
- family
- Chromodorididae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 1,968
- sightings worldwide
- 2,345
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 469611, Wikidata Q524481, GBIF 6519378, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.