Hypselodoris carnea is a species of colourful sea slug or dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Chromodorididae.

[2][3] This nudibranch was described from Île aux Fouquets, Grand Port, Mauritius.

It is frequently reported from South Africa, along the KwaZulu-Natal coast but these animals differ considerably from the original description.

[4][5] Hypselodoris carnea has a flesh-red mantle with six (rarely five) longitudinal white lines, white spots and carmine spots between the lines.

There is wide range of colour variation reported for this species and South African animals have many white lines instead of six, suggesting a species complex.