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Species: | P. polaris
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Polaria polaris (Volodchenko, 1946
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Polaria polaris is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine heterobranch mollusc in the family Paracoryphellidae. [2]
This species was described from the Arctic Ocean.
Polaria polaris is a flabellinid nudibranch with numerous closely spaced cerata and extremely long rhinophores. The body is translucent white and the digestive gland in the cerata is red. There is a broad band of opaque white pigment at the tip of the cerata. The rhinophores are smooth or slightly wrinkled and the oral tentacles have a splash of white pigment in the outer third. [3]
Polaria polaris | |
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Scientific classification | |
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Species: | P. polaris
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Polaria polaris (Volodchenko, 1946
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Polaria polaris is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine heterobranch mollusc in the family Paracoryphellidae. [2]
This species was described from the Arctic Ocean.
Polaria polaris is a flabellinid nudibranch with numerous closely spaced cerata and extremely long rhinophores. The body is translucent white and the digestive gland in the cerata is red. There is a broad band of opaque white pigment at the tip of the cerata. The rhinophores are smooth or slightly wrinkled and the oral tentacles have a splash of white pigment in the outer third. [3]