''Coryphella lineata'' is a

species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...

sea slug Sea slug is a common name for some Marine biology, marine invertebrates with varying levels of resemblance to terrestrial Slug, slugs. Most creatures known as sea slugs are gastropods, i.e. they are Sea snail, sea snails (marine gastropod moll ...

, an aeolid

nudibranch Nudibranchs () are a group of soft-bodied marine gastropod molluscs, belonging to the order Nudibranchia, that shed their shells after their larval stage. They are noted for their often extraordinary colours and striking forms, and they have b ...

, a marine

heterobranch Heterobranchia, the heterobranchs (meaning "different gill"), is a taxonomic clade of snails and slugs, which includes marine, aquatic, and terrestrial gastropod molluscs. Heterobranchia is one of the main clades of gastropods. Currently Hetero ...

mollusc Mollusca is a phylum of protostome, protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant taxon, extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum ...

in the family

Coryphellidae ''Coryphella'' is a genus of sea slugs, specifically aeolid nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs. It is the only genus in the family Coryphellidae. Taxonomy ''Coryphella'' was originally described in an 1850 paper, and included three origin ...

.Gofas, S. (2014)
''Flabellina lineata'' (Lovén, 1846).
Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2014-10-24

Description

''Coryphella lineata'' are commonly 20-30mm (2-3 cm) in length and are seen in a variety of colours, translucent white with either red, red-brown, yellow, or orange colouring of the digestive gland within the cerata.
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Diet

This species feeds on

hydroids Hydroids are a life stage for most animals of the class Hydrozoa, small predators related to jellyfish. Some hydroids such as the freshwater '' Hydra'' are solitary, with the polyp attached directly to the substrate. When these produce buds, ...

such as ''

Tubularia indivisa ''Tubularia indivisa'' (oaten pipes hydroid) is a species of large hydroid discovered in 1758. Description ''T. Indivisa'' is observed to have around 40 oral tentacles surrounded by 20–30 larger tentacles. This outer ring of larger tentacle ...

''.Rudman, W.B., 2000 (September 17
''Flabellina lineata'' (Loven, 1846).
n/nowiki> Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.

Distribution

''Coryphella lineata'' can be found throughout the

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, and can also be found south as far as the

Mediterranean Sea The Mediterranean Sea ( ) is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the east by the Levant in West Asia, on the north by Anatolia in West Asia and Southern Eur ...

and north to

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References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q44355674 Flabellinidae Gastropods described in 1846