Baeolidia australis, is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch found from the west coast of Australia to New Zealand. It is a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Aeolidiidae.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Suborder: | Cladobranchia |
| Family: | Aeolidiidae |
| Genus: | Baeolidia |
| Species: | B. australis
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| Binomial name | |
| Baeolidia australis | |
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Spurilla australis Rudman, 1982 basionym | |
Distribution edit
This species was described from Long Reef, Sydney, Australia. It is reported from South Australia, Western Australia, Queensland and New South Wales, and also from northern New Zealand.[3]
Description edit
Baeolidia australis is distinguished from Baeolidia moebii by having a thin orange sub-apical band above a broad blue band on each ceras, which is never present in Baeolidia moebii. Baeolidia australis looks bluish whereas Baeolidia moebii is more yellow or brown. The body of Baeolidia australis also seems to have a brown and white reticulate pattern that is not found in Baeolidia moebii.[4]
References edit
- ^ Rudman W. B. (1982). "The taxonomy and biology of further aeolidacean and arminacean nudibranch molluscs with symbiotic zooxanthellae". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 74(2): 147-196. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1982.tb01146.x.
- ^ Rosenberg, G.; Bouchet, P. (2014). Baeolidia australis (Rudman, 1982). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-02-24.
- ^ Rudman, W.B., 1999 (July 21) Spurilla australis Rudman, 1982. [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
- ^ Carmona L., Pola M., Gosliner T.M. & Cervera J.L. 2014. Review of Baeolidia, the largest genus of Aeolidiidae (Mollusca: Nudibranchia), with the description of five new species. Zootaxa, 3802 (4): 477–514.