Aeolid Nudibranchs     (Cladeobranchia)

• Have many cerata spread over their back which are used for defense as well as respiration
• They lack a mantle
• Some host zooxanthellae

 

VICTORIAN AEOLIDs 

All these have been taken in Victorian waters and can be found looking in rockpools, snorkelling or scuba diving. 

 

Family: Aeolidiidae

Scientific Name:    Aeolidiella drusilla   (Bergh,1900)

Common Name:    Drusilla Aeolid

 Photo by Paul Sorensen. Victoria, Flinders Pier, September 2018. 

 

 Photo by Paul Sorensen. Victoria, Flinders Pier, September 2018.

 

Scientific Name:   Baeolidia australis  (Rudman, 1982)

Common Name:   Southern Baeolidia

Photo by Paul Sorensen. Victoria, Blairgowrie Pier, March 2022.

 

Scientific Name:   Cerberilla sp.  (,)

Common Name:   Cerberilla Aeolid

 Photo by Paul Sorensen. Victoria, Blairgowrie Pier, October 2021.

 

 

Family: Facelinidae

Scientific Name:   Austraeolis ornata  (Angas, 1864)

Common Name:  Ornate Facelinid

 Photo by Paul Sorensen. Victoria, Blairgowire Pier, August 2019.

 

Favorinus sp.

 

Family: Flabellinidae

 Flabellinidae sp.

Photo by Paul Sorensen

 

 

 

 

Family:    Myrrhinidae

Scientific Name:  Phyllodesmium serratum   (Baba, 1949)

Common Name:  Made-up Phyllodesmium

 Photo by Paul Sorensen. Victoria, Blairgowrie Pier, 

 

 

Family:    Arminidae

Scientific Name:   Dermatobranchus rubidus   (Gould, 1852)

Common Name:   Nudibranch

 Photo by Paul Sorensen. Victoria, Blairgowrie Pier

 

Family:    Dotidae

Doto pita  (Er. Marcus, 1955)

 

Family:    Madrellidae

Scientific Name:  Madrella ferruginosa  (Alder & Hancock, 1864)

Common Name:   Madrella Nudi

 

 

Family:    Tritoniidae

Scientific Name:  Tritonia Sp. RB3   (,)

Common Name:  Tritonia Nudi

Photo by Paul Sorensen. Victoria, Blairgowrie Pier, February 2010. 

 

OTHER AOELIDS

Family: Facelinidae

Pteraeolidia semperi    (Bergh, 1870) 

Shimoda, Japan 

 

 

 

 

 

FAMILY:   Samlidae

Samla bicolor    (Kelaart, 1858)