Aeolidiella glauca

Order: NUDIBRANCHIA
Suborder: DEXIARCHIA
Infraorder: CLADOBRANCHIA
Parvorder: AEOLIDIDA
Superfamily: AEOLIDIOIDEA
Family: AEOLIDIIDAE
Genus: Aeolidiella
Species: Aeolidiella glauca

DISTRIBUTION

British Isles, Denmark to France

Grows to about 40mm long, and feeds on a variety of sea anemones. It is hard to differentiate in shape and colour from Aeolidiella alderi, but it has a quite different reproductive behaviour with Aeolidiella glauca having planktotrophic larval development while Aelodiella alderi has direct development, with no planktonic larval stage.