Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Family Tergipedidae. <i>Cuthona sp.</i>.(from Beesley, Ross & Wells 1998) [S. Weidland]

Family Tergipedidae. Cuthona sp..(from Beesley, Ross & Wells 1998) [S. Weidland]

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Family TERGIPEDIDAE Bergh, 1889

Introduction

A large family of generally small, often colourful, aeolid nudibranchs. All species eat hydroids or the flesh of encrusting corals, and are usually difficult to see when upon or among their food. The body is usually slender, the oral tentacles long and slender, the rhinophores mostly smooth, though species with annulate, lamellate and partly ribbed occur locally. The cerata vary considerably in number from a series of single cerata well spaced along each side of the body, to densely crowded cerata so close that little of the body is visible. The radula is a series of single denticulate teeth. The anus opens on the right side between the first and second clusters of cerata.

[Compiled from Burn (in press 2012)]

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
01-Dec-2011 OPISTHOBRANCHIA 01-Dec-2011 MOVED Dr Robin Wilson
01-Dec-2011 01-Dec-2011 MOVED
11-Jan-2016 24-Nov-2011 MODIFIED
24-Mar-2011 (import)