Cuthona caerulea
(Montagu, 1804)
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Identification is verified by Nathalie Yonow, Nudi Pixel expert
Comment from Nathalie Yonow: This is Cuthona caerulea. However, it is impossible to see the anterior tentacles. But there is a band of blue below the yellow on the cerata, barely visible here. For me the dead give-away is the clump of hydroid, called Sertularella. It forms large clumps like this. The egg mass is also typical of the species, and always on Sertularella.
| Location: | Hyères, France |
| Photographer: | Daniela Wolf |
| Camera: | Olympus C7070 Wide Zoom › View EXIF properties |
| Taken on: | April 19, 2006 |
| Viewed: | 443 times |
| Posted: | 10 months ago |
| Updated: | 8 months ago |
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Scientific Classification
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Opisthobranchia |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Suborder: | Aeolidina |
| Family: | Tergipedidae |
| Species: | Cuthona caerulea |