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title: "White-spotted Sea Goddess"
description: "Doriopsilla albopunctata — Other animals. Doriopsilla albopunctata, the white-spotted sea goddess, is a species of dorid nudibranch, a colorful sea slug, in the family Dendrodorididae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/white-spotted-sea-goddess
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# White-spotted Sea Goddess

> Doriopsilla albopunctata — Other animals. Doriopsilla albopunctata, the white-spotted sea goddess, is a species of dorid nudibranch, a colorful sea slug, in the family Dendrodorididae.

- Scientific name: *Doriopsilla albopunctata*
- Category: `other` (Other animals)
- Habitats: `sea` (Sea & coast)
- iNaturalist observations: 4794
- Wikidata: [Q3172397](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3172397)
- iNaturalist taxon: [474590](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/474590)

## Names

- en: White-spotted Sea Goddess
- es: Dórido de puntos blancos

## Countries with the most observations

US (4469), MX (39)

## Summary

Doriopsilla albopunctata, the white-spotted sea goddess, is a species of dorid nudibranch, a colorful sea slug, in the family Dendrodorididae. It is native to the Pacific Coast of North America, from Mendocino County, California south, possibly to Baja California Peninsula, Mexico.
There are five other species that are quite similar to Doriopsilla albopunctata and can be confused with it: Doriopsilla bertschi (Hoover, Lindsay, Goddard & Valdés, 2015), Doriopsilla davebehrensi (Hoover, Lindsay, Goddard & Valdés, 2015), Doriopsilla fulva (MacFarland, 1905), Doriopsilla gemela (Gosliner, Schaefer & Millen, 1999), and…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doriopsilla_albopunctata

## Photo

![White-spotted Sea Goddess](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/white-spotted-sea-goddess/medium.jpg)

Photo: Tory Bush · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/339943125

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/white-spotted-sea-goddess?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).