#4831 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs

Noble Dorid

🇳🇱 Montereina nobilis ·Peltodoris nobilis

🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 outside Europe

9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Jules Wyman · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Naomi Iwai · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Robin Agarwal (ANudibranchMom on iNaturalist) · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Donna Pomeroy · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Ken-ichi Ueda · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
6. © Donna Pomeroy · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Donna Pomeroy · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Ian Cruickshank · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © Robin Agarwal (ANudibranchMom on iNaturalist) · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Peltodoris nobilis , commonly called the sea lemon , false sea lemon , or the noble dorid , is a species of colorful sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusk in the family Discodorididae.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 8,131iNaturalist observations

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.
8,131 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Frank Mace MacFarland in 1905 (121 years ago).