Order : Nudibranchia
Suborder : Euctenidiacea
Superfamily : Doridoidea
Family : Chromodorididae
Distribution :
Maximal size :
Abundance :

Species characteristics :

Mantle blue with three or more longitudinal black line.

Marginal yellow, orange or salmon band.

Yellow to orange rhinophores and gills

Pattern 1 : with large black longitudinal lines

Matthias Deuss

Mayotte, ilot d'Hajangoua, 10 m, 13 February 2012, size : 30 mm

Pattern 1 caracterized by :
      - Large black lines on the dorsum
      - Large white line between the margin and the black lines

According N. Yonow " looks like C. hamiltoni but too much white along the orange margin... but probably a variant of C. hamiltoni

Sully Bachel

Madagascar, Ile Sainte Marie, 28 m, October 2008, size : 30 mm

Pattern 1: with large black longitudinal lines

Pattern 2 : with coalescent black longitudinal lines

Florence Ttrentin

Mohéli, Sambia, 19 Octobre 2006

Pattern 2 caracterized by :
      - Coalescent black lines on the dorsum
      - Small white line between the margin and the black area

According N. Yonow " No idea...but Rudman considered that their are black variant of C. hamiltoni"

Freddy Fuentes et Nathalie Geffriaud

Mayotte, 11 May 2006

Pattern 1: with coalescent black longitudinal lines

Françoise Levy

Madagascar,Nosy bé,

Pattern 2 : with coalescent black longitudinal lines

Pattern 3 : with white and pink salmon margin

Olivier Lebris

Mayotte, Nurserie, 10 m, 3 December 2008, size : 25 mm

Pattern 3 caracterized by :
      - A pink salmon margin
      - But also a large internal white margin...

According N. Yonow "With the pink salmon border it could be a variant of C. hamiltoni"

According Bill Rudman " It looks like C. elisabethina, C. hamiltoni and C. quadricolor but the wide white band separating the orange border from the inner black line is unusual. At present I have been calling some of these puzzling forms Chromodoris cf. africana but only as a stop-gap measure until we can make better sense of them. One problem is that in most of these species, juveniles can have quite a wide white band as in your animal"

Alain Barrère

Madagascar, Andavadoaka, 2005

Pattern 2 : with orange to pink salmon border

Mantle blue with a broad pink salmon (a) margin

In this specimen, behind the rhinophores the median dark blue line become dirty orange (b)

Pattern 4 : with deep yellow to orange margin

Alain Barrére

Madagascar, andavadoaka, 2005

Pattern 4 caracterized by :
      - A deep yellow margin

According N. Yonow "May be C. elisabethina because of the yellow border but may be other.... "

Sylvain Lebris

Mayotte, "Jardin Japonais", 20 m, 2 December 2008

Pattern 4: with yellow margin

Alain-Benoît Rassat

Madagascar, Nosy bé, 20 m, size : 30 mm

According Mary Wakeling : "Looks like C. elisabethina "

Pattern 4 : with deep yellow to orange margin

Madagascar, Andavadoaka, 05

Madagascar, Andavadoaka, 05

Madagascar, Andavadoaka, 05

Mohéli, Sambia, Oct 06