Kauaʻi record · KCA-MOL-00041
Purple-spotted Nudibranch
Chromodoris aspersa
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About Purple-spotted Nudibranch
Bishop Museum TR29 records Kauaʻi station presence; Sea Slugs of Hawaii explicitly includes Kauai; iNaturalist RG observations 19264964 (Poʻipū, 2018) and 270632977 (Ahukini, 2021) have Kauaʻi coordinates.
WoRMS AphiaID 558319 lists Chromodoris aspersa as accepted; expert account bridges historical Hawaiian use of C. lilacina.
Expert account states low intertidal to 37 m on rocky bottoms, often under rocks by day.
Three source lines converge on an accepted shallow-rocky species explicitly occurring on Kauaʻi. Reconciled rule: undated expert occurrence or community observations do not independently establish CURRENT status.
Names and classification
- Scientific name
- Chromodoris aspersa
- Common names
- Purple-spotted Nudibranch
- Other names
- Chromodoris aspersa
- Record type
- species
Kauaʻi occurrence and status
- Kauaʻi occurrence
- Authoritative survey or expert evidence verifies Kauaʻi occurrence historically; community observations were not used to promote the record to CURRENT.
- Origin
- Origin not inferred from occurrence census
- Conservation status
- Not assessed
- Evidence limits
- Occurrence category and evidence are source-bounded. Abundance, trend, and living status are not inferred beyond the reviewed evidence.
Habitat and ecology
- Habitats
- Marine reef and nearshore
Process and seasonal context
- Seasonal description
- Chromodoris aspersa is included in the verified Kauaʻi mollusk census. Three source lines converge on an accepted shallow-rocky species explicitly occurring on Kauaʻi. Reconciled rule: undated expert occurrence or community observations do not independently establish CURRENT status.