Red gilled aeolid
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Latin Name: Flabellina fusca and Flabellina verrucosa
Geographic Range: Flabellina fusca has a range from Alaska to Oregon. Flabellina verrucosa's range is circumboreal from Alaska to the San Juan's and Japan and the north Atlantic
SCUBA Divers Info:
Two common nudibranchs that I find hard to tell apart. They can be identified by the red gills with white tips and unlike the Opalescent nudibranch there is no stripe down the back. They are common on walls or sandy and muddy bottoms.
**B**Beachwalkers Info:
This animal does not inhabit the intertidal zone so you are very unlikely to find it beachwalking or tidepooling.
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