Runcina coronata. c: cephalic shield dark brown with yellowish border. g: gills almost concealed. e: indistinct interior eye. m: metapodium with dark dorsal band and white dots.Weymouth, England. April 2012.

Species

Runcina coronata

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I.F. Smith

Runcina coronata. Foot distinctly separated from fused mantle/cephalic-shield, which folds down over its anterior margin. Posterior of foot and gill extended behind mantle. Weymouth, England. April 2012.

Species

Runcina coronata

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I.F. Smith

Runcina coronata. Fused mantle/cephalic shield. In strong light, mantle translucent with yellow spots, anterior collar of whitish spots, and posterior U of yellow dots continuing on foot. g: three gills protruding from below mantle. Weymouth. April 2012.

Species

Runcina coronata

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I.F. Smith

Eubranchus pallidus. Translucent inflated white cerata; pale-brown internal digestive gland, mahogany and white flecks, distally white with sub-apical gold ring . Mahogany band and flecks on rhinophores and oral tentacles. Orkney. February 1975.

Species

Amphorina pallida (Alder & Hancock, 1842)

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I.F. Smith

Eubranchus pallidus. Spawn a spiral ribbon attached to substrate by its edge. Illustration from Alder & Hancock (as Eolis picta).

Species

Amphorina pallida (Alder & Hancock, 1842)

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I.F. Smith

Eubranchus pallidus. Foot widest at anterior, but no propodial extension or tentacles. Sole translucent white. Large cylindrical mouth, slit ventrally. Illustration from Alder & Hancock (as Eolis picta).

Species

Amphorina pallida (Alder & Hancock, 1842)

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I.F. Smith

Placida dendritica. Spawn on Codium. After Alder & Hancock, 1845-55, "British nudibranchate mollusca", as Hermaea dendritica.

Species

Placida dendritica

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I.F. Smith

Placida dendritica. Length 10mm. Sole translucent showing spheroids of ovotestis. Anterior smoothly rounded with no central indentation,no propodial tentacles and only a slight lateral expansion. LWS. Orkney. August 1976.

Species

Placida dendritica

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I.F. Smith

Placida dendritica. After Alder & Hancock, 1845-55, "British nudibranchate mollusca", as Hermaea dendritica.

Species

Placida dendritica

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I.F. Smith

Aeolidiella alderi. Typical specimen; white body and tentacles with distal pigment. Pale brown filled cerata, except white anterior ruff. No pigment on dorsum. Eyes clearly visible behind rhinophores. May 2012. Worms Head, S. Wales.

Species

Aeolidiella alderi

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D. Kipling

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