Doriopsilla albopunctata

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Doriopsilla albopunctata, commonly known as the white-spotted sea goddess, is a colorful sea slug in the family Dendrodorididae. It lives along the Pacific coast of North America, from Mendocino County, California, south to the Baja California Peninsula, Mexico, and can reach about 60 mm (2.5 inches) in length.

The body can be yellow, orange, or brown, but it always has very small opaque white dots on the tips of raised tubercles and in circles around them. The head “feelers” (rhinophores) are yellow or orange-yellow, while the gills at the back are white or pale yellow.

Five other similar species can be mistaken for it:
- Doriopsilla bertschi
- Doriopsilla davebehrensi
- Doriopsilla fulva
- Doriopsilla gemela
- Baptodoris mimetica

Diet is not fully clarified, with reports possibly referring to related species. It has been reported to eat an orange sponge in Bahía de los Ángeles (likely D. bertschi) and also Cliona californiana, the yellow boring sponge.