Goniobranchus hintuanensis

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| genus = Goniobranchus

| species = hintuanensis

| authority = (Gosliner & Behrens, 1998)

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| Chromodoris hintuanensis| Gosliner & Behrens, 1998{{cite journal |last1=Gosliner |first1=Terrence M. |last2=Behrens |first2=D.W. |title=Five new species of Chromodoris (Molluscs: Nudibranchia: Chromodorididae) from the tropical Indo-Pacific Ocean |journal=Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences |series=4th series |date=1998 |volume=50 |issue=5 |pages=139–165 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15659747 }} (basionym) }}

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Goniobranchus hintuanensis is a species of colorful sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chromodorididae.{{cite WoRMS |title=Goniobranchus hintuanensis (Gosliner & Behrens, 1998) |year=2022 |id=597338 |db=Marine Mollusca |access-date=17 February 2022}}

Distribution

This species was described from Balayan Bay, Luzon, Philippines. It has been reported from the Marshall Islands,Scott Johnson (2015) [http://www.underwaterkwaj.com/nudi/chromodorids/e527.htm Goniobranchus hintuanensis.] [In] Underwater Kwajalein Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Thailand, Burma and Sri Lanka. Specimens from the Indian Ocean differ in having yellow spots in the paler patches of the dorsal pattern.Rudman, W.B., 2000 (January 28) [http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/chrohint Chromodoris hintuanensis Gosliner & Behrens, 1998.] [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.Debelius, H. & Kuiter, R.H. (2007) Nudibranchs of the world. ConchBooks, Frankfurt, 360 pp. {{ISBN|978-3-939767-06-0}} page(s): 164Gosliner, T.M., Behrens, D.W. & Valdés, Á. (2008) Indo-Pacific Nudibranchs and seaslugs. A field guide to the world's most diverse fauna. Sea Challengers Natural History Books, Washington, 426 pp. page(s): 220{{cite journal |last1=Johnson |first1=Rebecca Fay |last2=Gosliner |first2=Terrence M. |title=Traditional taxonomic groupings mask evolutionary history: A molecular phylogeny and new classification of the chromodorid nudibranchs |journal=PLOS ONE |date=2012 |volume=7 |issue=4 |page=e33479 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0033479|pmid=22506002 |pmc=3323602 |bibcode=2012PLoSO...733479J |doi-access=free }}

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