Joan Barcia
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Okenia elegans (Leuckart, 1828)
The body is white, suffused with pink or red.The finger-like processes project from the head the edges of the mantle and the middle of the dorsum are orange with yellow or white tips. The food is yellow edged.The rhinophores are lamellate,rosy in colour and yellow tipped.
Okenia elegans feeds exclusively on the ascidian Polycarpa scuba and other ascidians of genus Polycarpa, Ascidia, Botryllus, Molgula, Ciona and Dendrodoa.
Similar to Okenia leachii and Okenia aspersa.
Synonymised names
Euplocamus cirriger R. A. Philippi, 1839 · unaccepted
Euplocamus laciniosus R. A. Philippi, 1841 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Idalia cirrigera (R. A. Philippi, 1839) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Idalia dautzenbergi Vayssière, 1919 · unaccepted (synonym)
Idalia elegans Leuckart, 1828 · unaccepted
The body is white, suffused with pink or red.The finger-like processes project from the head the edges of the mantle and the middle of the dorsum are orange with yellow or white tips. The food is yellow edged.The rhinophores are lamellate,rosy in colour and yellow tipped.
Okenia elegans feeds exclusively on the ascidian Polycarpa scuba and other ascidians of genus Polycarpa, Ascidia, Botryllus, Molgula, Ciona and Dendrodoa.
Similar to Okenia leachii and Okenia aspersa.
Synonymised names
Euplocamus cirriger R. A. Philippi, 1839 · unaccepted
Euplocamus laciniosus R. A. Philippi, 1841 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Idalia cirrigera (R. A. Philippi, 1839) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Idalia dautzenbergi Vayssière, 1919 · unaccepted (synonym)
Idalia elegans Leuckart, 1828 · unaccepted
