Paliolla cooki
(Angas, 1864)

Order: NUDIBRANCHIA
Suborder: DORIDINA
Superfamily: ANADORIDOIDEA
Family: Polyceridae
Subfamily: Polycerinae

DISTRIBUTION

Temperate Australia from New South Wales to South Australia.

PHOTO

Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, Australia. Oct 1989, AM C160803. Photos: Bill Rudman [Further details to follow]

Small polycerid of unknown affinities, with radula apparently fused into a cone of rods. Nothing is known of its biology but it often associated with the bryozoan in the accompanying photos on which it is quite camouflaged, the small orange spots matching the darker apertures in the bryozoan colony.

Reference:
• Angas, G.F. (1864). Description d'espèces nouvelles appartenant à plusieurs genres de Mollusques Nudibranches des environs de Port-Jackson (Nouvelles-Galles du Sud), accompagnée de dessins faits d'après nature. Journal de Conchyliologie, 12: 43-70

Authorship details
Rudman, W.B., 2001 (June 22) Paliolla cooki (Angas, 1864). [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet/palicook

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