Sakuraeolis nungunoides
Rudman, 1980
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Below is comment from Dr. Bill Rudman, go to Sea Slug Forum to read more information
Dear Mike,
I hope you left yourself some room to retreat with dignity because this time your girlfriend was right. It is Sakuraeolis nungunoides. The difference between the two is mainly that in the lower photo the cerata are being held stiff and upright. Many glaucid aeolids erect their cerata like this when disturbed. Sakuraeolis nungunoides not only straightens its cerata but it also bristles them, quivering and pointing the red colored tips, containing their cnidosacs, at the source of the irritation. Porcupines bristle their spines in much the same way when attacked. When I first found this species in East Africa I named it 'nungunoides' after the Swahili word for the porcupine -nungunungu.
It has since been found in many parts of the tropical Indo-West Pacific..
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman
| Location: | Miri, Malaysia |
| Photographer: | Mike Krampf |
| Camera: | Olympus μ600 › View EXIF properties |
| Taken on: | May 27, 2006 |
| Viewed: | 524 times |
| Posted: | 1 year ago |
| Updated: | 9 months ago |
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Scientific Classification
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Opisthobranchia |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Suborder: | Aeolidina |
| Family: | Facelinidae |
| Species: | Sakuraeolis nungunoides |