Nudibranchs - Sunshine Coast etc. / 2709a
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30/12/03
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2709a

Pteraeolidia ianthina (Angas, 1864)
Location: Rock Wall, Mooloolaba Sunshine Coast, Queensland Australia
Size: 90-10 mm
Depth: 1.8 m
Temperature: 24 C		 ORDER: NUDIBRANCHIA
FAMILY: Facelinidae
white brown purple
Photographs by Gary Cobb - Copyright 2003-2008

2761a
White juvenile animal without symbiotic zooxanthellae and larger brown animal in which symbiotic zooxanthellae
are nurtured in ducts of the digestive gland both in the cerata and the body wall. Bill Rudman

2725a


Laying egg mass