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

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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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