Cadlina flavomaculata
MacFarland, 1905
Order: NUDIBRANCHIA
Suborder: DORIDINA
Superfamily: EUDORIDOIDEA
Family: Chromodorididae
DISTRIBUTION
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, to the southern extreme of the Baja California peninsula, in the region of La Paz, Mexico.
PHOTO
Monterey, California, USA. Subtidal, Photographer: Steve Lonhart
Typical doris shape with an ovate mantle with a broad overlap or 'skirt' which hides the body and foot. The mantle is translucent white with a single row of large, rounded, milky yellow mantle glands running around the mantle skirt some distance from the edge. It is usualy described without a yellow border to the mantle but the specimen illustrated here, and another in Behrens (1991) have adistinct yellow border. The rhinophores clubs are black and the gills are translucent white.
It is reported to feed on the sponge Aplysilla glacialis (Dybowski, 1880) (see McDonald and Nybakken, 1978).
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Angulo C. O. (2002) New distributional records for opisthobranch mollusks from the Golfo de California, México. The Festivus, 34 (10): 117-121.
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Behrens, D. W. (1991) Pacific coast nudibranchs. Sea Challengers, Monterey, CA, 105 pp.
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MacFarland, F. M. (1905) A preliminary account of the Dorididae of Monterey Bay, California. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 18: 35-54.
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MacFarland, F. M. (1906) Opisthobranchiate Mollusca from Monterey Bay, California, and vicinity. Bulletin of Fisheries, 25: 109-151.
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MacFarland, F. M. (1966) Studies of opisthobranchiate mollusks of the Pacific coast of North America. California Academy of Sciences, Memoirs, 6: 1-546.
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McDonald, G. R. (1983). A review of the nudibranchs of the California coast. Malacologia 24 (1-2): 114-276.
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McDonald, G. R., & Nybakken, J. R. (1978). Additional notes on the food of some California nudibranchs with a summary of known food habits of California species. The Veliger, 21 (1): 110-118.
Rudman, W.B., 2005 (August 19) Cadlina flavomaculata MacFarland, 1905. [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/cadlflav
Related messages
Re: More on Cadlina flavomaculata
July 6, 2006
From: Marcos Perreau Guimaraes
Concerning message #17032:
Hi Bill,
I don't remember ever seeing one in situ without the yellow border (I saw pictures). I have only a bad picture (the rHinophores aren't visible) of one maybe feeding, but it is not on Aplysilla. Theye were several other Cadlina flavomaculata a few yards around this one.
Locality: Anchor Farm, Shale beds, Monterey, 80', California, USA, Pacific, 01 May 2004, Shale bed, silty. Length: 2cm. Photographer: Marcos Perreau Guimaraes.
Cheers,
Marcos.
marcospg@csli.stanford.edu
Perreau Guimaraes, M., 2006 (Jul 6) Re: More on Cadlina flavomaculata. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/17055Thanks Marcos,
I guess this is why it is such a slow process building up good feeding information on these species. Some species make it very easy, always being found near or on their food sponge, but for most it is much more difficult, either because the sponges are very cryptic or the nudibranchs apparently move a lot between meals.
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman
More on Cadlina flavomaculata
July 4, 2006
From: Marcos Perreau Guimaraes
Hi Bill,
Sorting my pics on slugs I saw Steve Lonhart post on Cadlina flavomaculata and your consequent fact sheet. This nudibranch is common to abundant in some diving sites in the Monterey/Carmel/Big Sur area. Late winter to summer I have seen them in great numbers, one every few yards, at a shale bed site called Anchor Farm very near Monterey harbor (about half a mile from the breakwater). But I have seen them in various sites from Schmieder bank (4nm offshore of Pt Sur) to Moss Landing, at depths ranging from 50' to over 200', either on rocky bottom (Fig 1 at Point Lobos and Fig 2 at outer pinnacles) or silty shale bed bottom (Fig 3 at Anchor Farm).
Locality: Monterey/Carmel/Big Sur, 50ft - 200ft+, California, Pacific, Often, rocky, silty. Length: 1cm - 5cm. Photographer: Marcos Perreau Guimaraes.
Marcos Perreau Guimaraes.
marcospg@csli.stanford.edu
Perreau Guimaraes, M., 2006 (Jul 4) More on Cadlina flavomaculata. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/17032
Dear Marcos,
Thanks for the additional information. From your observations, is the yellow border to the mantle a common feature? None of the written descriptions I have seem mentions it, but it is present in most photos I have seen. You wouldn't by chance have a photo of this species feeding would you? It is reported to feed on a species of Aplysilla.
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman
Cadlina species in Monterey, CA
August 20, 2005
From: Steve Lonhart
The names Cadlina flavomaculata and C. limbaughi did not show up in a search of the website. What have they been changed to?
Locality: Monterey, California, USA. Subtidal, Photographer: Steve Lonhart
Steve Lonhart
lonhart@biology.ucsc.edu
Lonhart, S., 2005 (Aug 20) Cadlina species in Monterey, CA. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/14581Dear Steve,
I am afraid that not every species is on the Forum, so an absence just means that I haven't a photo, or haven't had the time to add the missing species. In this case I don't have photos of either of those species of Cadlina. If you have photos you care to share I will be glad to include them on the Forum.
I am pretty sure your animal is Cadlina flavomaculata. With your photo I have prepared a Fact Sheet for the species. Your photo has all the characteristics of Cadlina flavomaculata but it has a yellow border to the mantle which is not mentioned or illustrated in most descriptions of that species. Dave Behrens (1991) has a photo of an animal with a yellow border, so I assume this is variable in the species.
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman
