Dendronotus patricki

Description

General: Live animals uniformly reddish brown, with digestive gland visible through semi-translucent body as a purple mass. Buccal mass and hermaphroditic gland also visible as pale yellowish masses on anterior and posterior ends of the body, respectively.

Geographic Information

Published depth range: 898 – 2161 m

Ocean range (global): Monterey Canyon to Santa Cruz Basin (Southern California).

Habitat description: Benthic: typically soft sediment and mud, often found near whale-falls, but might inhabit hard rock as well.

Additional Information

References

Encyclopedia of Life

Tree of Life

World Register of Marine Species

National Center for Biotechnology Information

Stout, C.C., N.G. Wilson, and Á. Valdés (2011). A new species of deep-sea Dendronotus Alder & Hancock (Mollusca : Nudibranchia) from California, with an expanded phylogeny of the genus. CSIRO, 25: 60-69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/IS10027