Flabellina pedata
(Montagu, 1815)

Order: NUDIBRANCHIA
Suborder: AEOLIDINA
Family: Flabellinidae

DISTRIBUTION

Mediterranean, and east Atlantic north to Norway.

PHOTO

Dun Village Bay,St. Kilda, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, United Kingdom, 1993, 15m. PHOTO: Daniel L. Geiger

Grows to about 50mm long. The body, oral tentacles and rhinophores are purple, and the tentacles and cerata are tipped with white. The colour of the digestive gland (and therefore the cerata) varies from red to pink, to violet and to orange. The rhinophores have a distinctly wrinkled surface. [See photo below]. Adults are usually found on their hydroid food Eudendrium ramosum but juveniles have been reported on a number of species of smaller calyptoblastic hydroids.

Reference:
• Montagu, G. (1815). An account of some new and rare British shells and animals. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 11: 179-204

Authorship details
Rudman, W.B., 1999 (June 16) Flabellina pedata (Montagu, 1815). [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet/flabpeda

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