Ceratosoma brevicaudatum

Short-tailed ceratosoma

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Nudipleura clade Nudibranchia
Superfamily:	Doridoidea
Family:	Chromodorididae
Genus:	Ceratosoma
Species:	C. brevicaudatum
Binomial name
*Ceratosoma brevicaudatum* Abraham, 1876

Ceratosoma brevicaudatum, the short-tailed ceratosoma, is a species of colorful dorid nudibranch, a sea slug, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chromodorididae.

Distribution

Houtman Abrolhos, Western Australia, to Cape Byron, New South Wales, and around Tasmania.^[1]

Ceratosoma brevicaudatum
Yellow variation of Ceratosoma brevicaudatum in Fly Point, Port Stephens, New South Wales
Ceratosoma brevicaudatum
Ceratosoma brevicaudatum

↑ Edgar, Graham J. (2008). Australian Marine Life: The plants and animals of temperate waters (Second ed.). Sydney: New Holland. ISBN 9781921517174.

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