Description ²

Ground color translucent greyish-white, often with a patch of pale orange in cardiac region. Cerata usually with whitish tips, cores light rose to bright orange. Rhinophores orange-vermilion, with about 10-14 oblique lamellae. Oral tentacles usually encrusted with opaque white distally. Foot corners produced.

Size ²

Typically about 20mm in length, but may reach 35mm.

Geographic Range ²

Duxbury Reef, Marin Co., CA, to Bahia Todos Santos, Baja California, Mexico.

Notes ²

Preys on various species of sea anemones.

References ²

CARMONA, L., M. POLA, T. M. GOSLINER, & J. L. CERVERA. 2013. A tale that morphology fails to tell: a molecular phylogeny of Aeolidiidae (Aeolidida, Nudibranchia, Gastropoda). PLoS ONE 8(5): e63000. PDF

MACFARLAND, F. M. 1966. Studies of opisthobranchiate mollusks of the Pacific coast of North America. Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences 6:1-546, pls. 1-72. PDF

McDONALD, G. R. 1983. A review of the nudibranchs of the California coast. Malacologia 24(1-2):114-276. PDF

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF MARINE INVERTEBRATE TAXONOMISTS. 2018. A taxonomic listing of benthic macro- and megainvertebrates from infaunal & epibenthic monitoring and research programs in the southern California bight, edition 12, 1 July 2018, xviii + 167 pp. PDF

Synonyms ²

Aeolidiella oliviae, Spurilla oliviae

Additional Info ²

WoRMS

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1. (c) Gary McDonald, all rights reserved, uploaded by Gary McDonald
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