species: Chelidonura pallida in Lizard Island area: all known taxa (Lizard Island Field Guide)
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Chelidonura pallida


©Barbara Banks: Chelidonura pallida photographed at Hope Island, south of Lizard Island.

©Barbara Banks: Chelidonura pallida at Eagle Island near Lizard Island.

©Brogan Mancell: Chelidonura pallida at Clam Garden, Lizard Island.

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Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Gastropoda
Order Cephalaspidea
Family Aglajidae
Genus Chelidonura
Species Chelidonura pallida

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Lizard Island Field Guide
Lizard Island area: all known taxa

Colours

              

Distinguishing features

White with thin marginal bands of yellow then black. The two "tails" are of unequal length and often taper to a point.

Size

  • Up to 5 cm (Humann and Deloach, 2010)

Synonyms

Distribution


©Atlas of Living Australia: Australian distribution

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References

References that assist with identification

  • Humann, P. and N. Deloach (2010). Reef Creature Identification: Tropical Pacific New World Publications Inc., Jacksonville, Florida, USA.

Other references

  • Anthes, N. (2006). Mating conflicts and their evolution in simultaneously hermaphroditic sea slugs, Ph.D. thesis, Eberhard Karls Universitaet Tuebingen, Germany. LIRS catalog number 976.
  • Anthes, N. and N.K. Michiels (2007). Reproductive morphology, mating behaviour, and spawning ecology of cephalaspid sea slugs (Aglajdae and Gastropteridae), Invertebrate Biology, 126: 335-365. LIRS catalog number 1117.
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