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Updated 8/22/2013

Family Chromodorididae

HAWAII - ENDEMIC

Thorunna kahuna 

Midway Harbor, 15 feet

 

YO-257 Wreck, Oahu, 75 feet

YO-257 Wreck, Oahu, 75 feet

 

Sea Tiger Wreck, Oahu, 80 feet

Firehouse, Oahu, 45 feet

KAHUNA NUDIBRANCH

Locally common on ledges & wrecks at scuba depths.  Translucent pink body with purple rim and white mantle glands fore and aft.  Thorunna daniellae has a white body.  Gills wriggle as it crawls.  Attains 3/4 inch.  Endemic to Hawaii.