Nudibranchs - Sunshine Coast etc. / 6307a
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15/04/04
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0454a

Dendrodoris fumata (Kelaart, 1858)
Location: Alexandra Headland, Mooloolaba, Sunshine Coast, Queensland Australia
Size: 9-12 mm
Depth: Intertidal found under rock
Temperature: 26 C		 ORDER: NUDIBRANCHIA
FAMILY: Dendrodorididae
orange
Photograph by Gary Cobb, Terry Farr - Copyright 2003-2010

This dendrodoris has four colour forms – orange-red (which this one is), yellow, grey and black.
D. fumata is so variable that all these four points of difference you have picked up (white mantle margin, no markings or specks or blotches on mantle,
gill stalks and bases are white and found in deep water) (see below, 32mm found in 18m of water at Coles Hole off Mooloolaba) can be attributed to as intraspecific variation.
Richard Willan




















10 mm speciman found at Kings Beach intertidal area




Alexandra Headland Sunshine Coast Australia