Baeolidia harrietae is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch. It is a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Aeolidiidae.[2]

Baeolidia harrietae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Cladobranchia
Family: Aeolidiidae
Genus: Baeolidia
Species:
B. harrietae
Binomial name
Baeolidia harrietae
(Rudman, 1982)[1]
Synonyms
  • Aeolidiopsis harrietae Rudman, 1982

Distribution

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This species was described from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. It has been reported from Papua New Guinea, the Philippines and the Ryukyu Islands, Japan.[3]

Description

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Baeolidia harrietae is an extremely flattened animal which hides on the surface of the colonial zoantharian Palythoa.[4][3]

References

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  1. ^ 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, 147–196. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1982.tb01146.x
  2. ^ MolluscaBase (2018). Baeolidia harrietae (Rudman, 1982). Accessed on 2018-11-22.
  3. ^ a b 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.
  4. ^ Rudman, W.B., 2002 (July 18) Aeolidiopsis harrietae Rudman, 1982. [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.