#4826 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs

Red Sponge Dorid

Rostanga pulchra

🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 outside Europe

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

1. © Craig Hoover · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Ken-ichi Ueda · CC BY 4.0
3. © matt knoth · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
4. © Ken-ichi Ueda · CC BY 4.0
5. © juliamarkey · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Minette Layne · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Monterey County, CA, USA:© Jeff Goddard · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Henderson Point Dive Site:© Karen Cram · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Samish TDSA, WA, US:© Jane Holiday · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. La Jolla, San Diego, CA, USA:© Zach Berghorst · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Rostanga pulchra is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusk in the family Discodorididae.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 8,605iNaturalist 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.
8,605 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Frank Mace MacFarland in 1905 (121 years ago).