Family HERMAEIDAE H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854

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Regional Maps

• Hermaeidae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854.
• Caliphyllidae Tiberi, N. 1881. 1 molluschi nudibranchi del Mediterraneo. Bullettino della Società Malacologica Italiana, Pisa 6: 184-224.

  Type genus:

   Caliphylla A. Costa, 1867.

Introduction

The cerata of hermaeids are usually fusiform and often almost transparent except for the digestive gland duct and its branches. A few species have paddle-shaped cerata, but these are smooth edged and thick. The rhinophores are laterally grooved, slightly wider at the tip, each with two apical lobes; some species have smooth simple rhinophores. Some species are brilliant, even fluorescent, red in colour in life, acquiring their pigmentation from the red algae they eat.

General References

Beesley, P.L., Ross, G.J.B. & Wells, A. (eds) 1998. Mollusca: The Southern Synthesis. Fauna of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 5(Part B) pp. vi–viii, 565–1234.

Burn, R. 2006. A checklist and bibliography of the Opisthobranchia (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Victoria and the Bass Strait area, south-eastern Australia. Museum Victoria Science Report 10: 1-42

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