About Carronella pellucida (Alder & Hancock, 1843)
Carronella pellucida has a translucent white body, with opaque white pigment on the tips of its rhinophores, oral tentacles, and cerata. The cerata themselves are bright red, because the nudibranch's digestive glands give them this color. The cerata are arranged in distinct clusters that grow from several shared stalks called peduncles. The maximum recorded body length of this species is 30 mm (1.2 in), though some individuals reach up to 40 mm (1.6 in). This species was first described based on a single specimen collected from deep water off Cullercoats, England, in the North Sea. In the United Kingdom, it has a northerly distribution, and is found most regularly in Scotland. It has been recorded at depths of up to 20 m (66 ft). It usually feeds on Eudendrium arbuscula, a hydroid that belongs to the family Eudendriidae.
