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Tenellia speciosa Candy nudibranch

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Trinchesia speciosa,castle pinnacles Cape Point, Cape Town, South Africa 2023 (CC-BY-SA)


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lexID:
11469 
AphiaID:
986814 
Scientific:
Tenellia speciosa 
German:
Bonbon Trinchesia, Fadenschnecke 
English:
Candy Nudibranch 
Category:
Limaces de mer 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Nudibranchia (Order) > Trinchesiidae (Family) > Tenellia (Genus) > speciosa (Species) 
Initial determination:
(Macnae, ), 1954 
Occurrence:
Endemic species, South-Africa 
Marine Zone:
Subtidal, sublittoral, infralittoral, deep zone of the oceans from the lower limit of the intertidal zone (intertidal) to the shelf edge at about 200 m water depth. neritic. 
Sea depth:
0 - 30 Meter 
Habitats:
Seawater, Sea water 
Size:
2,0 cm 
Temperature:
°F - 64.4 °F (°C - 18°C) 
Food:
Carnivore, Food specialist, Hydrozoa polyps 
Difficulty:
Not suitable for aquarium keeping 
Offspring:
None 
Toxicity:
Toxic hazard unknown 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Red List:
Not evaluated (NE) 
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
 
More related species
in this lexicon:
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2025-05-27 15:17:34 

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Tenellia speciosa (Macnae, 1954)

Tenellia speciosa, commonly known as The Candy Nudibranch,is endemic to South Africa. This nudibranch have a yellow-orange body and turquoise or purple cerata with yellow tips, but three distinct colour forms exist. Two colour forms with blue cerata and yellow to orange rhinophores and another form with lilac cerata and lilac coloured rhinophores and oral tentacles.

Candy nudibranch feeds exclusively on hydroids genus Sertularella.The orange egg mass is a spiral collar .

Synonymised names
Catriona speciosa Macnae, 1954 · unaccepted
Cuthona speciosa (Macnae, 1954) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Trinchesia speciosa (Macnae, 1954) · unaccepted > superseded combination

External links

  1. Sea Slug Forum (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  2. Wikipedia (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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Trinchesia speciosa,castle pinnacles Cape Point, Cape Town, South Africa 2020 (CC-BY-SA)
Trinchesia speciosa,castle pinnacles Cape Point, Cape Town, South Africa 2023 (CC-BY-SA)
Trinchesia speciosa,vulcan rock, Cape Town, South Africa 2024 (CC-BY-SA)
Cuthona speciosa 02, Cape Town Nudibranchs 2009
Cuthona speciosa (Candy nudibranch)

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