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Aeolidiidae

14 species · Animals

Animalia › Mollusca › Gastropoda › Nudibranchia › Aeolidiidae

Aeolidia filomenae Kienberger, Carmona, Pola, Padula, Gosliner & Cervera, 2016

Aeolidia filomenae is an identifiable nudibranch species found along the Atlantic coast of the British Isles and Europe.

Aeolidia papillosa (Linnaeus, 1761)

Aeolidia papillosa is a Northern Hemisphere cold-temperate nudibranch that steals nematocysts from cnidarian prey for defense.

Aeolidia loui Kienberger, Carmona, Pola, Padula, Gosliner & Cervera, 2016

Aeolidia loui is a North American Pacific Coast nudibranch identifiable by its characteristic cerata and warty rhinophores.

Aeolidiella glauca (Alder & Hancock, 1845)

Aeolidiella glauca is a 45 mm nudibranch found from Norway down to France's Atlantic coast.

Aeolidiella alderi (Cocks, 1852)

Aeolidiella alderi is a small, hermaphroditic sea slug that hunts and sequesters stinging cells from sea anemones.

Spurilla neapolitana (Delle Chiaje, 1841)

Spurilla neapolitana is a large Mediterranean-origin nudibranch now recognized as a species complex found in shallow temperate Atlantic waters.

Spurilla braziliana MacFarland, 1909

Spurilla braziliana is an age-color-variable aeolid nudibranch found across Atlantic and Pacific coastal regions.

Anteaeolidiella oliviae (MacFarland, 1966)

Anteaeolidiella oliviae is a California-restricted aeolid nudibranch that feeds on nocturnally active sea anemones and grows up to 20 mm long.

Anteaeolidiella chromosoma (Cockerell & Eliot, 1905)

Anteaeolidiella chromosoma is a species found along Pacific coasts from California to Japan, with an orange spotted body and white-tipped tentacles.

Anteaeolidiella lurana (Ev.Marcus & Er.Marcus, 1967)

Anteaeolidiella lurana is a nudibranch species with distinct color patterns, found across multiple ocean regions.

Berghia coerulescens (Laurillard, 1832)

Berghia coerulescens is a nudibranch species with a confirmed distribution restricted to the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea.

Bulbaeolidia alba (Risbec, 1928)

Bulbaeolidia alba is an aeolid nudibranch sea slug found from the Central Indo-Pacific to the western Indian Ocean.

Baeolidia moebii Bergh, 1888

Baeolidia moebii is an Indo-Pacific marine aeolid nudibranch that preys on the sea anemone Cricophorus nutrix.

Baeolidia australis (Rudman, 1982)

Baeolidia australis is a nudibranch distinguished from Baeolidia moebii by specific color patterns, found in Australian waters and northern New Zealand.

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