species: Chelidonura varians in Australian Seaslugs (Gaia Guide)

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Chelidonura varians

©Barbara Banks: Chelidonura varians at Lizard Island

©Tobias Gerlach: Chelidonura varians at Lizard Island

©Barbara Banks: A pair of Chelidonura varians laying egg masses. Fifteen individuals were seen in a small area on this day (16 Sep 2014).

Kingdom Animalia

Phylum Mollusca

Class Gastropoda

Order Cephalaspidea

Family Aglajidae

Genus Chelidonura

Species Chelidonura varians

Colours

Black with a bright blue line on head as well as on body margin; long twin tapering "tails" of unequal length. (Humann and Deloach, 2010)

Animalia: species: Philinopsis speciosa
Has tails of equal length and the rear portion of the head shield is often held upright.
Animalia: species: Philinopsis speciosa
Has tails of equal length and the rear portion of the head shield is often held upright.

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Camacho-García, Y.E., E. Ornelas-Gatdula, T.M. Gosliner and Á. Valdés (2013). Phylogeny of the family Aglajidae (Pilsbry, 1895) (Heterobranchia: Cephalaspidea) inferred from mtDNA and nDNA. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2013.11.010. LIRS catalog number 1707.
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