Felimida socorroensis

Felimida socorroensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Nudibranchia
Suborder:	Doridina
Superfamily:	Doridoidea
Family:	Chromodorididae
Genus:	Felimida
Species:	F. socorroensis
Binomial name
	Felimida socorroensis; (Behrens, Gosliner & Hermosillo, 2009)
Synonyms
	Chromodoris socorroensis Behrens, Gosliner & Hermosillo, 2009 (basionym) ;

Felimida socorroensis is a species of colourful sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Chromodorididae^[2]^[3]

Distribution[]

The holotype of this species was collected at Cabo Pierce, Isla Socorro,

18°46′40″N 110°54′26″W / 18.77784°N 110.907194°W, Revillagigedo Islands, Mexico. Additional specimens included in the original description came from Isla Socorro and Isla San Benedicto. It is an eastern Pacific Ocean endemic.^[4]

^ Behrens, D. W.; Gosliner, T. M.; Hermosillo, A. (2009). A new species of dorid nudibranch (Mollusca) from the Revillagigedo Islands of the Mexican Pacific. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. 4(60), 423-429.
^ ^a ^b MolluscaBase (2018). Felimida socorroensis (Behrens, Gosliner & Hermosillo, 2009). Accessed on 2018-12-31.
^ Johnson R.F. & Gosliner T.M. (2012) Traditional taxonomic groupings mask evolutionary history: A molecular phylogeny and new classification of the chromodorid nudibranchs. PLoS ONE 7(4): e33479.
^ Behrens, D.W., 2014. Felimida socorroensis. Miller, M. ed., The Slug Site.