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Nudi ID 2, Nudi ID 3, Nudi ID 4, & Nudibranch Behavior,
Nudibranch Compatibility,
Nudibranch Selection,
Nudibranch Systems,
Nudibranch Feeding,
Nudibranch Disease,
Nudibranch
Reproduction, Berghia
Nudibranchs, Marine Snails
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2, Marine Snails
3, Marine Snails
4, Sea Slugs,
Seaslugs 2,
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Snail ID
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Related Articles: Dorid et al. Nudibranchs pt. 2,
Aeolid Nudibranchs pt.
3, Sea
Slugs, Gastropods, Mollusks,
Aiptasia/Glass
Anemones
/The Conscientious Marine
Aquarist
Nudibranchs, The
Naked-Gill Sea Slugs, pt. 8, Dorids
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Family Dorididae... Halgeridae: Genera
Halgerda, Sclerodoris, Aphelodoris, Asteronotus,
Artachaea.
Genus Halgerda: Typically smooth, hemispherical
appearing, slimy to the touch. Rhinophores and gills white, with yellow
and black markings.
| Halgerda carlsoni
Rudman 1978. Northern Australia, Indonesia. To two inches in
length. Black rhinophores and gills. Bunaken/Manado/Sulawesi/Indonesia image. |
 
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| Halgerda malesso. Philippines, Indonesia,
Guam, Mariana Islands. To 7 cm. Feed on sponges. N. Sulawesi pix.
Note black emarginated rhinophores. |
 
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| Halgerda terramtuentis Bertsch & Johnson
1982, the Gold Lace Nudibranch. Hawaiian endemic. Michelle Lemech
photo taken there. |
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| Halgerda tesselata, Madagascar, Thailand,
Micronesia, Australia. To an inch and a half in length.
Image made off of Pulau Redang,
Malaysia. |
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| Halgerda species. Malaysia, Northern
Sulawesi (possibly elsewhere in the Pacific). To about 3.5 cm. N.
Sulawesi pic. |
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Family Hexabranchidae: Monotypic; the Spanish
Dancer.
| Hexabranchus sanguineus (Ruppel &
Leuckart 1828), the Spanish Dancer. Large animal with a prominent
mantle. A notable swimmer when frightened. Laminar rhinophores.
Partially retractable second gills. Oral tentacles large,
flap-like. Red Sea, Indo-Pacific, including Hawaii, Atlantic. Eats
sponges, worms, slugs and echinoderms in the wild. This one
photographed in the Cooks. Egg bundle in Malaysia. |
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Family Notodoridae:
| Notodoris (now Aegires?) minor Eliot 1904. East Africa to
the Solomon Islands. To three and a half inches in length. Feeds on
sponges. One off of Queensland, Australia, and a pair consuming an
Alcyoniid soft coral in N. Sulawesi. |
 
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