Antiopella barbarensis explained

Antiopella barbarensis, common name Santa Barbara janolus,^[1] is a colourful sea slug, a cladobranch nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Janolidae.^{[2] [3] [4]}

Distribution

Antiopella barbarensis is a commonly found nudibranch on the Pacific coast inhabiting tide pools of La Jolla, California.^[5] Populations also expand to some parts of Costa Rica.

Behrens 1991 gives the distribution as "San Francisco Bay to Baja California, Gulf of California, Mexico".^[6]

Notes and References

1. Turgeon, D.; Quinn, J.F.; Bogan, A.E.; Coan, E.V.; Hochberg, F.G.; Lyons, W.G.; Mikkelsen, P.M.; Neves, R.J.; Roper, C.F.E.; Rosenberg, G.; Roth, B.; Scheltema, A.; Thompson, F.G.; Vecchione, M.; Williams, J.D. (1998). Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: mollusks. 2nd ed. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, 26. American Fisheries Society: Bethesda, MD (USA). . IX, 526 + cd-rom pp.
2. MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Antiopella barbarensis (J. G. Cooper, 1863). Accessed on 2020-10-20.
3. http://escholarship.org/uc/item/93c42364 McDonald, Gary R. (2009). Nudibranch Systematic Index, second edition.
4. Rudman, W.B., 2000 (June 29) Janolus barbarensis (Cooper, 1863). [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
5. Web site: Santa Barbara Janolus (Antiopella barbarensis). iNaturalist.org. 2016-05-19.
6. Behrens, David W. 1991. Pacific Coast Nudibranchs. Sea Challengers: Monterey, California.