Trapania rudmani
Miller, 1981

Order: NUDIBRANCHIA
Suborder: DORIDINA
Superfamily: ANADORIDOIDEA
Family: Goniodorididae

DISTRIBUTION

Throughout New Zealand, apparently endemic.

PHOTO

Locality: Aha Aha Rocks, The Noisies, Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand. 12 m. 9 March 1975. coll R.C. Willan. Photo: M.C.Miller

Body generally translucent white with the brown and cream parts of the viscera showing through the body wall. The edges of the rhinophoral lamellae, oral tentacles and gills and paired dorsal processes are lightly speckled with opaque white pigment, and the paired processes have a yellow line along their upper surface.

  • Miller, M.C. (1981) Trapania rudmani, a new dorid nudbranch (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia) from New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 8: 5-9.
Authorship details
Rudman, W.B., 2002 (February 9) Trapania rudmani Miller, 1981. [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet/traprudm

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