Nudi Pixel: Nudibranchs and Sea Slugs Identification with Photographs

Polycera capensis

Photographed by: Daniel Wainwright

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Opisthobranchia
Order:	Nudibranchia
Suborder:	Doridina
Family:	Polyceridae
Species:	Polycera capensis

These are some of the many color variants of Polycera capensis

Note that this individual has the right extra-branchia process forked at the tip. This mutation is unique to this individual.

A distinctively coloured dorid nudibranch that was originally endemic to the southern African coast but it was accidentally introduced into New South Wales, Australia, in the 1930s and is now naturalised there.

Locality:

• Australia
  • Nelson Bay (14) Jan, Feb, Apr, Jul, Aug, Sep, Nov, Dec
  • Sydney (2) Jan, Oct
  • New South Wales (1) Jun
• South Africa
  • Cape Town (11) Jan, Feb, Mar, Dec
  • Port Elizabeth (2) Jun, Nov

 

Pictures of Polycera capensis

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