title: Okenia leachii
text: # Okenia leachii
  
  Okenia leachii is a species of sea slug, a Dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Goniodorididae.
  
  ## Distribution
  
  This species was first described from Whitburn, North Sea with additional specimens from the Hebrides and Torbay.
  
  ## Description
  
  This goniodorid nudibranch is translucent white in colour, with brilliant white pigment on the pallial tentacles, rhinophores and gills.
  
  ## Ecology
  
  Okenia leachii probably feeds on tunicates such as Molgula occulta, family Molgulidae which live buried in muddy sand seabeds.
  
  