Nudibranchs - Sunshine Coast etc. / fiona
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21/10/2007
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3702a

Fiona pinnata (Eschscholtz, 1831)
Location: Mudjimba Beach, Sunshine Coast, Australia
Size: 20 mm
Depth: intertidal
Temperature: 26 C

ORDER: NUDIBRANCHIA
FAMILY: Fionidae

blue green

Photographs by Gary Cobb, and Peter Davies - Copyright 2003-2025


Stalked egg masses found attached to By-the-wind Sailor (Velella velella) on the beach


The white circle around the anteriormost ceras (the one immediately above the everted buccal mass)
shows the wavy membrane on the ceras that is diagnostic of Fiona.