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| nudibranchs text index | photo index |
| Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > sea slugs > Order Nudibranchia |
| Crosslandia
nudibranch Crosslandia sp. Family Scyllaeidae updated Oct 10 Where seen? This extremely well camouflaged nudibranch was seen once on St. John's Island. Dr Bill Rudman has its distribution as being in Central America. Features: About 3cm long. It has a pair of 'flaps' (mantle lobes) in the middle of the body. There are fluffy structures (dendritic gill-like structures) inside the mantle lobes. The brush-like rhinophores are tiny and are at the tip of a huge rhinophore stalk. Along the sides of the body it has a few bright blue spots and white spikes. What does it eat? This nudibranch grazes tiny hydroids that grow on seaweeds. |
 St. John's Island, Jan 06 |
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 Tiny brush-like rhinophore at the tip of long rhinophore stalk. |
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Western Australian Museum. 184 pp.|
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