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title: "Northern Leopard Dorid"
description: "Diaulula odonoghuei — Autres animaux. Diaulula odonoghuei, the spotted leopard dorid, is a species of dorid nudibranch found in the Pacific Ocean."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/fr/animal/northern-leopard-dorid
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Northern Leopard Dorid

> Diaulula odonoghuei — Autres animaux. Diaulula odonoghuei, the spotted leopard dorid, is a species of dorid nudibranch found in the Pacific Ocean.

- Scientific name: *Diaulula odonoghuei*
- Category: `other` (Autres animaux)
- Habitats: `sea` (Mer et côte)
- iNaturalist observations: 4975
- Wikidata: [Q60740393](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60740393)
- iNaturalist taxon: [508237](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/508237)

## Names

- en: Northern Leopard Dorid

## Countries with the most observations

US (2903), CA (1972), RU (3)

## Summary

Diaulula odonoghuei, the spotted leopard dorid, is a species of dorid nudibranch found in the Pacific Ocean. Identified as a cryptic species in 2016, it is differentiated from its sister species Diaulula sandiegensis by having considerably more spots on their mantle.

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

## Photo

![Northern Leopard Dorid](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/northern-leopard-dorid/medium.jpg)

Photo: Drew Meyer · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/154061690

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/northern-leopard-dorid?lang=fr` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).