Acanthodoris pilosa

Acanthodoris pilosa
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Superfamily: Onchidoridoidea
Family: Onchidorididae
Genus: Acanthodoris
Species:
A. pilosa
Binomial name
Acanthodoris pilosa
Abildgaard in O. F. Müller, 1789
Synonyms
  • Acanthodoris citrina (Verrill, 1879)
  • Acanthodoris ornata (Verrill, 1879)
  • Acanthodoris pilosa pilosa (Abildgaard, 1789)
  • Acanthodoris quadrangulata (Alder & Hancock)
  • Doris bifida (Verrill, 1870)
  • Doris flemingii (Forbes, 1838)
  • Doris laevis (Müller, 1776)
  • Doris nigricans (Fleming, 1828)
  • Doris quadrangulata (Jeffreys, 1869)
  • Doris rocinela (Leach in Gray, 1852)
  • Doris similis (Alder & Hancock, 1842)
  • Doris stellata (Gmelin, 1791)
  • Doris sublaevis (Thompson, 1840)
  • Doris subquadrata (Alder & Hancock, 1845)
  • Doris vocinella (Leach, 1847)

Acanthodoris pilosa, the hairy spiny doris, is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Onchidorididae. It is found in shallow water in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean, its range extending from Norway to France, and also both on the eastern coast of Canada and the United States, and the Pacific coast from the Aleutian Islands to Morro Bay, California.