Clione limacina  (Sea Angel)

© Neil McDaniel (Photo ID #86151)

Photographer's Submitted Details

Photo Location	Howe Sound
Photographer	Neil McDaniel
Habitat	marine, pelagic
Photo Date	May 19, 2011
Upload Date	December 07, 2015
Elevation (m)	-5
Latitude	49.57595
Longitude	-123.276683333333
Photo ID #	86151
Comments	Sea angel. Phylum Mollusca, Class Gastropoda, Order Gymnosomata, Family Clionidae. To 3 cm long, much larger in the Arctic (to 8 cm). Found in cold and temperate waters from the surface down to 600 metres. For more information, see Wrobel and Mills, 1998, Pacific Coast Pelagic Invertebrates.