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DENDRODORIDIDAE 303
minute, compressed spurious teeth. Penis unarmed. Chromodoris Alder and
Hancock is a synonym of the following genus.
Genus Glossodoris Ehrenberg 1831
Glossodoris porterae Cockerell Porter's Blue Doris
Monterey to San Diego, California.
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Yo inch in length, characterized by its deep ultramarine blue (dissolves
out at death) and by the two orange stripes. Foot without orange marks.
Fairly common in rocky tide pools. This might be the young or a form of
the next species.
Glossodoris californiensis Bergh Califomian Blue Doris
Monterey to San Diego, California.
2 inches in length. Like G. porterae, but with numerous, bright, orange,
oblong spots in two rows on the mantle, another row down each side of the
foot, and a group of round spots on the anterior end. Common in tide pools.
G. universitatis Ckll. is this species.
Glossodoris macjarlandi Cockerell MacFarland's Blue Doris
La Jolla to San Pedro, California.
% inch in length, like a small porterae, but with a ground color of red-
dish purple (not dissolving out at death); mantle with a yellow-orange mar-
gin and 3 longitudinal yellow stripes. End of foot with an orange stripe.
Rare.
Family DENDRODORIDIDAE
Body soft, Doris-shaped. Pharyngeal bulb and elongated sucking tube,
destitute of mandibles and radulae. Penis armed with a series of hooks.
Doriopsis Pease is a synonym of the following genus.
Genus Defidrodoris Ehrenberg 1831
Dendrodoris fulva MacFarland Common Yellow Doris
California.
2 inches in length. Back soft, with low, papilla-like elevations tipped
with white. Rhinophores with 18 to 20 leaves in the clavus which is % the