Baeolidia major

Taxobox
name = "Baeolidia major"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Heterobranchia
ordo = Opisthobranchia
subordo = Nudibranchia
superfamilia = Aeolidioidea
familia = Aeolidiidae
genus = "Baeolidia"
genus_authority = Bergh, 1888
species = "B. major"
binomial = "Baeolidia major"
binomial_authority = Eliot, 1903
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"Baeolidia major" is a species of small sea slug or aolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Aeolidiidae.

Distribution

This species lives worldwide in tropical and subtropical waters. The type locality is Zanzibar, Africa.

Description

This is a most colourful aeolid. Its cerata are brown with whitish oval spots, ringed near the tips in crimson and light blue. The oral tentacles and rhinophores are orange, and the oral lobes are pale blue.

The length is up to 32 mm.

Life habits

This nudibranch feeds upon the anemone "Cricophorus nutrix".

References

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