Baeolidia lunaris

Baeolidia lunaris is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch. It is a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Aeolidiidae found in Tanzania.[1][2]

Baeolidia lunaris
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Cladobranchia
Family: Aeolidiidae
Genus: Baeolidia
Species:
B. lunaris
Binomial name
Baeolidia lunaris
Carmona, Pola, Gosliner & Cervera, 2014[1]

Distribution

This species was described from a specimen found in shallow water feeding on Zoanthids at Mana Huanja Island, Mtwara Region, Tanzania.[1]

Description

Baeolidia lunaris has a translucent brownish body covered with fine iridescent opaque white spots. The rhinophores are approximately equal in length to the oral tentacles and are densely covered by elongate papillae. The rhinophores are translucent brown with small white spots and white tips. The oral tentacles are short and slender, tapering near apices, also translucent brown in colour. The cerata are moderately long, flattened and leaf-like and curved inwardly. They are the same colour as the body, but a little bit darker. There is a crescent-shaped white spot on anterior side of cerata, close to the base.[1]

References
  1. Carmona L., Pola M., Gosliner T.M. & Cervera J.L. 2014. Review of Baeolidia, the largest genus of Aeolidiidae (Mollusca: Nudibranchia), with the description of five new species. Zootaxa, 3802 (4): 477–514.
  2. Gofas, S. (2014). Baeolidia lunaris Carmona, Pola, Gosliner & Cervera, 2014. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-02-25.
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