Overview
Comprehensive Description
Description
A tiny sea slug with an internal shell. The shell is covered by the mantle and there are two prominent head tentacles. The tentacles, tail and mantle are coloured with powdery white pigment.
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Distribution
Azores Exclusive Economic Zone, European waters (ERMS scope), Irish Exclusive economic Zone, North Coast of Ireland, Scotland, South Coast of England, South Coast of Ireland, United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone
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Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp.
http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=1
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Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180-213
http://www.marinespecies.org/mollusca/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=1364
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MEDIN (2011). UK checklist of marine species derived from the applications Marine Recorder and UNICORN, version 1.0.
http://www.marinespecies.org/asteroidea/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=149081
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Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2011). Species.ie version 1.0 World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway (version of 15 March 2010).
http://www.marinespecies.org/ascidiacea/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=149068
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Borges, P.A.V., Costa, A., Cunha, R., Gabriel, R., Gonçalves, V., Martins, A.F., Melo, I., Parente, M., Raposeiro, P., Rodrigues, P., Santos, R.S., Silva, L., Vieira, P. & Vieira, V. (Eds.) (2010). A list of the terrestrial and marine biota from the Azores. Princípia, Oeiras, 432 pp.
http://www.marinespecies.org/ascidiacea/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=149079
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Source:
World Register of Marine Species
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Rarely found except by divers, originally described from Norway. Recent finds of living animals from western coasts of Britain and Ireland and from the western Mediterranean.
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Ecology
Habitat
Depth range based on 5 specimens in 1 taxon.
Environmental ranges
Depth range (m): 5.5 - 23.2
Graphical representation
Depth range (m): 5.5 - 23.2
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Environmental ranges
Depth range (m): 5.5 - 23.2
Graphical representation
Depth range (m): 5.5 - 23.2
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Rocky reefs in strong or moderate tidal streams.
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General Ecology
Ecology
The food of Colpodaspis species is reported as unknown in the literature. Recent observations in Northern Ireland suggest that it feeds on an apparently undescribed sea squirt, known to marine ecologists as the pinhead squirt, Clavelina sp.. .
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