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Updated 6/7/2023

Family Dendrodorididae

INDO-PACIFIC / HAWAII

Dendrodoris carbunculosa

Nanahoa, Lana'i, 40 feet

 

South Kaumalapau, Lana'i, 50 feet



Utungake, Vava'u, Tonga, 6 feet



Juvenile, South Shore, Oahu


Kahe Point, Oahu, 25 feet
   

CARBUNCULOUS NUDIBRANCH

Uncommon on reefs at any depth.  Tubercles finger-like, fusing into irregular mounds with age, base color variable, underside of mantle lacking white spots present in Dendrodoris tuberculosa.  Attains 29 inches.  Hawaii & the Indo-Pacific.