Tularia bractea

Taxobox
name = "Tularia bractea"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Heterobranchia
ordo = Opisthobranchia
subordo = Nudibranchia
superfamilia = Aeolidioidea
familia = Flabellinidae
genus = "Tularia"
species = "T. albomarginata"
binomial = "Tularia bractea"
binomial_authority = Miller, 1971

"Tularia bractea" is a species of very small sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusc in the family Flabellinidae.

Distribution

This species is endemic to south eastern Australia, and the North Island of New Zealand.

Habitat

This nudibranch lives on a substrate of coarse broken shell, "corallina", or hydroids, at depths of between 5 and 25 m.

Description

This species is small and slender, mainly yellowish, speckled with white and gold. Its length is up to 16.5 mm.

References

* Powell A. W. B., "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1