Hypselodoris rudmani
Gosliner & Johnson, 1999

Order: NUDIBRANCHIA
Suborder: DENDRONOTINA
Superfamily: EUDORIDOIDEA
Family: Chromodorididae

DISTRIBUTION

East coast of South Africa.

PHOTO

South Coast KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Park Rynie - 28m. May 1999. Size: 25mm. PHOTO: Valda Fraser.

Hypselodoris rudmani is basically translucent, with a reticulate pattern of opaque white, sometimes reduced to whitish spots. There are small black specks/spots scattered over the mantle - but very scarce or absent in the mid region. There is also a row of larger dark blue spots around the mantle edge, which is translucent clear. The gill pockets have unusually raised sheaths, and the rhinophore clubs are orange red. The simple gills are translucent with a thin orange line along the inner and outer edges - sometimes also with some white pigmentation.

• Gosliner, T.M. & Johnson, R.F. (1999) Phylogeny of Hypselodoris (Nudibranchia: Chromodorididae) with a review of the monophyletic clade of Indo-Pacific species, including descriptions of twelve new species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 125: 1-114.

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