Ceratosoma brevicaudatum

Short-tailed ceratosoma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
Superfamily: Doridoidea
Family: Chromodorididae
Genus: Ceratosoma
Species: C. brevicaudatum
Binomial name
Ceratosoma brevicaudatum
Abraham, 1876

Ceratosoma brevicaudatum, the short-tailed ceratosoma, is a species of colorful dorid nudibranch, a sea slug, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chromodorididae.

Distribution

Houtman Abrolhos, Western Australia, to Cape Byron, New South Wales, and around Tasmania.[1]

Ecology

References

  1. Edgar, Graham J. (2008). Australian Marine Life: The plants and animals of temperate waters (Second ed.). Sydney: New Holland. ISBN 9781921517174.
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