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Updated 7/17/2019

Family Aeolidiidae

CIRCUMTROPICAL / HAWAII

Spurilla braziliana

HIMB, Kane'ohe Bay

 

Haleolono Fishpond, Hilo, Hawai'i 

  

BRAZILIAN NUDIBRANCH

Rarely encountered under stones in shallow water.  It probably feeds upon Glass Anemones, Aiptasia sp.  Body and cerata color dictated by prey, with white flecks, ribbed rhinophores with white tips.  Attains 1 inch.  Hawai'i, Tropical Eastern Pacific, and Western Atlantic.  Formerly known in Hawai'i as Spurilla neapolitana.

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