Glandular Dorid

Doriopsis granulosa

• Group: Other
• For divers: safe

A common dorid nudibranch of shallow water just shoreward of fringing reefs, it shelters under rocks on reef platforms. Like its relatives it grazes on sponges, sliding across the reef on a broad muscular foot.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Mollusca › Gastropoda › Doridida › Dorididae › Doriopsis

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 549641.