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Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > sea slugs > Order Nudibranchia
Notobryon nudibranch
Notobryon sp.
Family Scyllaeidae
updated Oct 10

Where seen? Seen once on Sisters Islands.

Features: About 3cm long. It has a pair of 'flaps' (mantle lobes) in the middle of the body which it can use to swim with. 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.

What does it eat? This nudibranch eats hydroids.

Sisters Island, Nov 05

Sisters Island, Nov 05


Sisters Island, Nov 05


Beting Bronok, May 11
Photo shared by Loh Kok Sheng on his blog.

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