Archidoris wellingtonensis
(Abraham, 1877)

Order: NUDIBRANCHIA
Suborder: DORIDINA
Family: Dorididae

DISTRIBUTION

Found throughout New Zealand, Tasmania and Victoria, from intertidal to about 20m.

PHOTO

Devonport, Northern Tasmania, November 1985. Photo: Bill Rudman

The largest dorid (up to 200 mm) found in New Zealand waters. The body is stiff and fleshy, and covered with large, rounded to flattened pustules. Colour dark khaki brown to yellowish above, foot and rhinophores bright orange.
The egg mass is a flaccid orange spiral, 6-8 cm in diameter.

  • Abraham, P.S. (1877). Revision of the Anthobranchiate nudibranchiate mollusca, with descriptions or notices of forty-one hitherto undescribed species. Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1877: 196-269.
  • Willan, R. & Morton, J. (1984). Marine Molluscs. Part 2 Opisthobranchia. Leigh Marine Laboratory, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Authorship details
Rudman, W.B., 1998 (April 24) Archidoris wellingtonensis (Abraham, 1877). [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet/archwell

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