Nudi Pixel: Nudibranchs and Sea Slugs Identification with Photographs

Coeloplana sp.

This is not nudibranch or sea slug

Photographed by: Indra Swari

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Ctenophora
Class:	Tentaculata
Order:	Platyctenida
Family:	Platyctenidae
Species:	Coeloplana sp.

Benthic sea gooseberry with fishing tentacles (coloblasts) contracted (the conical wrinkled structures). These tentacles are expanded at night to feed on plankton.

Locality:

• Thailand
  • Similan Islands (1) Nov

 

Pictures of Coeloplana sp.

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