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Fried egg sea slug
Colpodaspis thompsoni
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 509679, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Fried egg sea slug
- Scientific
- Colpodaspis thompsoni
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Sea slugs
- Family
- Colpodaspididae
- Depth and habitat
- Sea floor (benthic), recorded from 3 to 41 m
- IUCN status
- NE · Not EvaluatedNot Evaluated (NE)
Description
A tiny sea slug that carries a small internal shell. It lives among rubble on reefs.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: museum specimens (n=5); iNaturalist research-grade observations in the Maldives (n=10, 4 observers); SeaLifeBase Maldives checklist.
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Colpodaspis-thompsoni.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=509679
- inaturalist.org /taxa/487302
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Colpodaspis_thompsoni_2.jpeg
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.