{ { Taxobox

| image =

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| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Mollusca

| classis = Gastropoda

| unranked_superfamilia = clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura

clade Nudipleura

clade Nudibranchia

clade Euctenidiacea

clade Doridacea

| superfamilia = Polyceroidea

| familia = Polyceridae

| genus = Thecacera

| species = T. darwini

| binomial = Thecacera darwini| binomial_authority = Pruvot-Fol, 1950

| synonyms =

}}Thecacera darwini is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Polyceridae.

Distribution

This species was first described from Chile, South America. It was first collected by Charles Darwin.

Thecacera darwini

Description

This polycerid nudibranch is translucent white in colour, with scattered black spots. The tip of the tail, gills, rhinophores and rhinophore sheaths are yellow.

Thecacera darwini

Ecology

Thecacera darwini feeds on the bryozoan Beania magellanica.

Thecacera darwini

References

Goniodorididae

Gastropods described in 1950

Taxa named by Alice Pruvot-Fol

Endemic fauna of Chile