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Nudibranch Selection,
Nudibranch Systems, Nudibranch Feeding,
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Nudibranchs, The
Naked-Gill Sea Slugs, pt. 2
Dorids, Dendronotaceans, Arminaceans
To: Pt. 1, Pt.
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By Bob Fenner |
Chromodoris kunlei |
Re: lynx nudibranch
Hi Bob,
Sorry for the lack of info.... this little critter is on page 303 in Humann's
2nd ed. They call it Phidiana lynceus subclass Opisthobranchia.
aquah0lic
<I see it on pg. 229 in my copy of "Reef Creatures". A beauty. Bob
Fenner>
Family Phyllidiidae:
identified by their warty bodies and placement of gills (between the mantle and
foot, not the dorsum). Tough-bodied. Mainly feeders on sponges. Noted for releasing toxins in
aquariums that are toxic to fishes and crustaceans.
| Phyllidia coelestis Bergh 1905. South Africa, China Sea,
Australia, Fiji. To 6 cm. Similar to P. verrucosa, but
distinguishable by P. coelistis divided black markings. N. Sulawesi
images. |
 
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| Phyllidia varicosa. Red Sea to Hawai'i. To nearly
three inches in length. One in Bunaken/Manado/Sulawesi/Indonesia,
one in Hawai'i, and a third in Nuka Hiva, Marquesas. The middle
one is about three inches in length. |
| Phyllidiella pustulosa (Cuvier 1804). Black body with
pink tuberculations arranged in rows to clusters. Common from the Red Sea
to Hawai'i. One in Fiji, another in Hawai'i. |
 
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| Phyllidiopsis annae. Thailand, New Guinea. Blue and
black body color, three longitudinal body ridges. Small... to 1.5 cm. in
length. N. Sulawesi image. |
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| Phyllidiopsis fissuratus, Thailand, Fiji to Australia.
Images made off of Bunaken/Manado/Sulawesi/Indonesia. To
eight cm. |
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| Reticulidia halgerda Brunckhorst & Burn 1990.
Black body, raised orange ridges with white borders are distinctive.
Similar to Halgerda spp., but lack the circum-anal gills of the latter.
Fiji image. |
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Family Polyceridae, Polycerid Dorids: Western Indian Ocean to Western Pacific; mostly
tropical, some temperate. Many distinctive colored species. Characterized by
elongated bodies, with gills on elevated part of their backs,
short/slender mantles (with foot behind it). Their chemo- and tactical-sensory
apparatus (rhinophores) are almost always branching (foliaceous). Feed on
bryozoans, ascidians, cnidarians, other nudibranchs... Genera Nembrotha,
Roboastra, Tambja can be distinguished only by dissection: radula and sex organs
in particular. Larger animals (up to 15 cm.) for nudi.s... use their narrow,
extendable throats as a suction pump in feeding (rather than as a scraping
radula)... easier than many nudi.s therefore to care for in captivity. Possible
Aiptasia feeders.
| Nembrotha lineolata Western I.O and Pacific;
Seychelles, Philippines, Western Australia, Fiji. To 4.5 cm. More than
five lines on the body. Sea Squirt feeder. A fast-moving species. N.
Sulawesi pix. |
 
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| Nembrotha megalocera Red Sea endemic. To 7.5 cm. A
swimmer when disturbed. Red Sea pic. |
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| Roboastra arika Burn 1967. Purple bodied with
yellow/orange lines. Feed on bryozoans. Fiji photo. |
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| Roboastra tigris. Sea Tiger. Tropical Eastern
Pacific; Sea of Cortez. To 30 cm. Body green to yellowish, with five
longitudinal dark stripes outlined in green. Rhinophores and gills
blue-black, the latter with yellow internally, oral region blue. Feeds on
other nudibranchs. |
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| Tambja fusca. Eastern Pacific; around the end of and
inside the Sea of Cortez. To 5 cm. Loreto pic. |
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| Tambja kushimotoensis. Mauritius to Japan. To 5 cm.
N. Sulawesi pix. |
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| Tambja morosa. East Africa, Indonesia, Philippines,
Hawai'i. To 7 cm. Found near base of reef slopes. Lembah, Sulawesi,
Indonesia pic. |
 
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| Thecacera sp. 2. N. Sulawesi (Lembeh Strait)
pic. |
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Suborder Dendronotacea:
Family Bornellidae:
| Bornella calcarata Borch 1863. Tropical West
Atlantic. |
 
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Family Tethyidae:
| Melibe mirifica (Allan 1932). To 30 cm. Small
rhinophores and conical, unbranched ceratal tubercles. This specimen in N.
Sulawesi's Lembeh Strait (tentative identification). A huge animal (about
a foot in length) with a "extensible head" that came out every
few seconds, seemingly sampling the substrate for food.
Seaslugforum: http://www.seaslugforum.net/melimiri.htm |
To: Nudi.s Part
1, Dorids, Nudi.s, pt.3, Aeolids
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