Description
provided by World Register of Marine Species
Up to 7 cm long. Black, sometimes with cream or white spots, the rhinophores with an elongated white knob at the tip. The edge of the mantle is frilly, the rest of the body very soft and slimy. Habitat: eulittoral zone under rocks and boulders on coral rubble, gravel, algal beds or shelly sand in sheltered bays. Distribution: W Indian Ocean, Red Sea to W Pacific Ocean; tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958).
- license
- cc-by-4.0
- copyright
- WoRMS Editorial Board
- bibliographic citation
- Richmond, M. (Ed.) (1997). A guide to the seashores of Eastern Africa and the Western Indian Ocean islands. Sida/Department for Research Cooperation, SAREC: Stockholm, Sweden. ISBN 91-630-4594-X. 448 pp. Katsanevakis, S.; Bogucarskis, K.; Gatto, F.; Vandekerkhove, J.; Deriu, I.; Cardoso A.S. (2012). Building the European Alien Species Information Network (EASIN): a novel approach for the exploration of distributed alien species data. <em>BioInvasions Records.</em> 1: 235-245.
- contributor
- Eunice Onyango [email]
