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Spanish Dancers
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Spanish Dancers

Hexabranchus

Hexabranchidae is a family of colourful nudibranchs (often called "sea slugs") which contains only a single genus, Hexabranchus, with six species.

This family is one of the many families of dorid nudibranchs in the suborder Doridina, named after Doris, who was a sea nymph in ancient Greek mythology.

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6 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Decumbent Spanish Dancer

speciesHexabranchus lacer

Spanish Dancer

speciesHexabranchus sanguineus

Hexabranchus sandwichensis

speciesHexabranchus sandwichensis

Yellow-margined Spanish Dancer

speciesHexabranchus aureomarginatus

Caribbean Spanish Dancer

speciesHexabranchus morsomus

Giant Spanish Dancer

speciesHexabranchus giganteus

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 49745.