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Chromodoris elisabethina
Bergh, 1877
Order: NUDIBRANCHIA
Suborder: DORIDINA
Family: Chromodorididae
DISTRIBUTION
Tropical western Pacific and perhaps into the Indian Ocean.
PHOTO
UPPER: Lizard Island, North Queensland, Australia. February 1981. 24mm long alive. PHOTO: J.Fields.
LOWER: Noumea, New Caledonia, October 1988. PHOTO: Bill Rudman
Chromodoris elisabethina is one of a group of chromodorids with a blue or bluish-white background colour and black or dark blue longitudinal lines. Often they have orange or yellow gills and rhinophores and a similarly coloured mantle border. The upper photo could be considered the "typical" colour pattern, but the orange border can be somewhat faint, (and apparently submarginal), and the median black line can be replaced by an irregular group of shorter lines. Chromodoris annae is one of the most similarly coloured species. It usually does not have a median black line and the blue areas of the mantle are not the uniform blue of C. elisabethina but have scattered darker specks, almost pits, throughout the blue areas.
See Scott Johnson's message describing its flattened egg ribbon.
Reference:
• Rudman, W.B. (1982) The Chromodorididae (Opisthobranchia: Mollusca) of the Indo-West Pacific: Chromodoris quadricolor, C. lineolata and Hypselodoris nigrolineata colour groups. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 76: 183-241.
Rudman, W.B., 1998 (November 19) Chromodoris elisabethina Bergh, 1877. [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet/chroelis
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