Anteaeolidiella indica from NZ

November 13, 2003
From: Brian Kuan

Hi, you have a great web site here. I a amateur aquariist, living in Auckland, New Zealand. Recently I have found a nudibranch living in my aquarium. My aquarium is a New Zealand Rockpool aquarium, I got all my rocks and sand from the local beach and rockpools.

Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Date: 05/11/2003
Depth: intertidal
biotope: rocky and a lot of kelp.

I have a website where I have pictures of all the inhabitants in my aquarium at:
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~kuansl/MarineTOC.htm
Please can you help me identify the species of nudibranch?
Thank you in advance.
Cheers
Brian Kuan

bkuan@ihug.co.nz

Kuan, B., 2003 (Nov 13) Anteaeolidiella indica from NZ. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/11360

Dear Brian,
This is quite a common aeolid nudibranch in northern New Zealand but does not seem to occur south of Auckland. It has recently [Miller, 2001] been renamed Anteaeolidiella indica but has been previously identified in New Zealand as Aeolidiella indica and Aeolidiella takanosimensis. As you will see on the species Fact Sheet there are still some complications surrounding this species' identification.

Little is known of its biology in New Zealand but I have observed animals in Australia feeding on sea anemones. If you can find a second individual, and are happy to replace sea anemones as they are eaten, this is a good aquarium animal as it does not have a free-living larval stage. if you are lucky you could end up with a second generation in your tank

When I get a moment I will post a selection of photos of this species from throughout the Indo-West Pacific to show its colour variability
Best wishes
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2003 (Nov 13). Comment on Anteaeolidiella indica from NZ by Brian Kuan. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/11360

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