Knoutsodonta sparsa
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| image_caption = The nudibranch Onchidoris sparsa, 4 mm length, Gulen Dive Resort, Norway.
| taxon = Knoutsodonta sparsa
| authority = (Alder & Hancock, 1846)Alder J. & Hancock A. (1846). [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2319717 Notices of some new and rare British species of naked Mollusca.] Annals and Magazine of Natural History 18: 289-294, pl. 4.
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|Doris sparsa|Alder & Hancock, 1846
|Onchidoris sparsa|(Alder & Hancock, 1846)
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Knoutsodonta sparsa is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Onchidorididae.Gofas, S. (2015). [http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140645 Onchidoris sparsa.] In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-01-17.
Distribution
This species was described from Cullercoats, North Tyneside, England. It is currently known from the European coasts of the North Atlantic Ocean from Norway, Orkney and Sweden south to the northern coast of Spain.Picton, B.E. & Morrow, C.C. (2015). [http://www.habitas.org.uk/marinelife/species.asp?item=W13380 Onchidoris sparsa (Alder & Hancock, 1846).]
Diet
Knoutsodonta sparsa feeds on the bryozoan Cellepora pumicosa. It has also been reported to eat Porella concinna.
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