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Painted hypselodoris
Israel · Mediterranean
A colourful chromodorid and one of the best-established Lessepsian sea slugs in the Levant, present year-round off Israel, Lebanon and Turkey. It lays a spiralled, whitish egg ribbon.
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Elongate body; ground colour cream to bluish-purple with scattered yellow spots and tiny dark-blue specks; pale blue mantle edge. Red to orange-red rhinophores; ring of white gills with reddish axes.
Native Felimare picta and F. villafranca have blue and yellow longitudinal lines, not spots.
Rocky infralittoral, ~1–20 m; tolerates harbour conditions well.
Sponges, especially Dysidea.
