Kingdom Animalia Class Gastropoda Family Cadlinidae Scientific name Cadlina sp.2 | Phylum Mollusca Superfamily Doridoidea Genus Cadlina Rank Species | |
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The brown-dotted nudibranch, Cadlina sp.2, as designated by Gosliner, 1987, is a species of colourful sea slug, a dorid nudibranch. It is a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cadlinidae.
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Distribution
This species has so far only been found around the southern African coast on both sides of the Cape Peninsula intertidally to 30 m. It remained undescribed by science as at November 2009 and is probably endemic.
Description
The brown-dotted nudibranch is a pale-bodied dorid with scattered brown dots over the notum. It also has several marginal opaque white spots. It may reach a total length of 25 mm.
Ecology
This species feeds on sponges.
References
Brown-dotted nudibranch Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA