Chelidonura hirundinina
©Barbara Banks: Chelidonura hirundinina mating or tailing, near Palfrey Island, Lizard Island Group.
©Barbara Banks: Chelidonura hirundinina mating or tailing, near Palfrey Island, Lizard Island Group.
©Barbara Banks: Chelidonura hirundinina mating or tailing, near Palfrey Island, Lizard Island Group.
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Cephalaspidea
Family
Aglajidae
Genus
Chelidonura
Species
Chelidonura hirundinina
Colours
Distinguishing features
Distinguishing features still need to be specified.
Size
- Up to 3 cm (length according to Humann and Deloach (2010))
Synonyms
Distribution
©Atlas of Living Australia: Australian distribution
Web resources
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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