Goniobranchus bombayanus

Goniobranchus bombayanus is a species of colourful sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Chromodorididae.^[2][4]

Goniobranchus bombayanus
Photographed in Mumbai in October 2018
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Nudibranchia
Family:	Chromodorididae
Genus:	Goniobranchus
Species:	G. bombayanus
Binomial name
Goniobranchus bombayanus (Winckworth, 1946)[1]
Synonyms[2]
Glossodoris bombayana Winckworth, 1946 Chromodoris naiki (Valdes, Mollo, & Ortea, 1999) [3]

Distribution

This species was described from Bombay, India.^[1] It occurs in the Gulf of Bengal off northeast India and the Andaman Islands.^[5]

Description

Goniobranchus bombayanus is a chromodorid nudibranch with a translucent white mantle with rounded purple spots and an orange submarginal band of coalescent spots. The centre of the back has a brownish hue and the surface is raised into tiny white papillae. The body reaches a length of 30 mm.^[5][6][7][8] It is very similar to Goniobranchus kitae.