Ceratosoma brevicaudatum

Short-tailed ceratosoma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia; clade Euthyneura; clade Nudipleura; clade Nudibranchia
Superfamily:	Doridoidea
Family:	Chromodorididae
Genus:	Ceratosoma
Species:	C. brevicaudatum
Binomial name
	Ceratosoma brevicaudatum; Abraham, 1876

Ceratosoma brevicaudatum, the short-tailed ceratosoma, is a species of colorful dorid nudibranch, a sea slug, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chromodorididae.

Distribution

Houtman Abrolhos, Western Australia, across South Australia and Victoria to Cape Byron, New South Wales, and around Tasmania.^[1]

Description

This firm-bodied species grows to a maximum recorded length of 15 centimetres. Within South Australian waters, dark coloured individuals are more common in the west and paler colours moreso in the east. An orange form is considered typical in SA.^[2]

Ecology

The species feeds on Euryspongia spp. sponges.^[2]

Ceratosoma brevicaudatum
Yellow variation of Ceratosoma brevicaudatum in Fly Point, Port Stephens, New South Wales
Ceratosoma brevicaudatum
Ceratosoma brevicaudatum

References

↑ Edgar, Graham J. (2008). Australian Marine Life: The plants and animals of temperate waters (Second ed.). Sydney: New Holland. ISBN 9781921517174.
1 2 Gowlett-Holmes, Karen (2008). A field guide to the marine invertebrates of South Australia. Sandy Bay, Tasmania: Notomares. p. 158. ISBN 978-0-9804854-0-0.

External links

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[Edgar_2008-1] Edgar, Graham J. (2008). Australian Marine Life: The plants and animals of temperate waters (Second ed.). Sydney: New Holland. ISBN 9781921517174.

[:0-2] 1 2 Gowlett-Holmes, Karen (2008). A field guide to the marine invertebrates of South Australia. Sandy Bay, Tasmania: Notomares. p. 158. ISBN 978-0-9804854-0-0.