Placida dendritica?
'Southeastern Australia'
Order: SACOGLOSSA
Superfamily: LIMAPONTIOIDEA
Family: Limapontiidae
DISTRIBUTION
Southeastern Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria.
PHOTO
UPPER RIGHT: West Head, Flinders, Western Port, Victoria, March 1986.
LOWER: on Codium sp.. Two Fold Bay, New South Wales, March 1986. PHOTOS: Bill Rudman.
See Cynthia Trowbridge's message suggesting there are many regional species around the world being erroneously identified as Placida dendritica. See photo of a specimen from Taiwan.
See Polynesian form Page.
See Atlantic form Page.
Authorship details
Rudman, W.B., 1999 (August 14) Placida dendritica? 'Southeastern Australia'. [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet/placden1
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