Order : Nudibranchia
Suborder : Dexiarchia
Superfamily : Aeolidioidea
Family : Facelinidae
Distribution : Indo West Pacific
Maximal size : 40 mm
Abundance :

Species characteristics :

The head of the animal is a watery orange with fine deeper orange speckling and a pair of bright orange lines on each side of the head.
    Cerata with orange, reddish, pinkish purple or blue-purple and white or yellowish bands
    The rhinophores are a watery orange colour with a millky yellow tip. They are long and tapering, appearing slightly wrinkled and annulate.
   The oral tentacles are long and slender
   The foot is translucent white with white patches.

Remarks :

Identification confirmed by Nathalie Yonow
   Important variation in the colour pattern of our specimens
    Synonymous : (according Worms)
               - No other name

Bibliographic data :

The digestive gland appears reddish orange or brownish where masked by the orange ceratal wall, but is a reddish, pinkish purple or blue-purple in the transparent section, the distal part of the digestive gland being usually a particularly intense purple.
    The oral tentacles are long and slender The proximal half of the oral tentacle is a pinkish-purple, except for a patch of millky yellow on the dorsal side. The distal half of the oral tentacle is milky yellow.
    The foot is a little wider than the body and at the anterior end the foot corners are long and tapered
    On each side, from just behind the oral tentacles, a band of milky yellow to white runs below the cerata to the posterior end of the body. Between each ceratal arch, this yellow band widens. The rest of the body is a pale, watery orange, with a series of markings down the dorsal mid-line
    The foot is translucent white with white patches. The leading edge of the foot and foot corners are milky yellow, and the distal half of the tail is a watery purple.

Alain Diringer

Reunion, Cap la Houssye, 6 December 2009

The rhinophores are orange with a millky yellow tip. They are long and tapering, appearing slightly annulated.

The digestive gland appears reddish orange where masked by the orange ceratal wall, but is a blue-purple in the transparent section.

A specimen with an intense coloration of the cerata

Monika Bachel

Reunion, La Possession, 7m, 21 May 2009, size 15 mm

2 specimens observed

The foot is translucent white with white patches (a).

The rhinophores are a watery orange colour with a millky yellow tip (b). They are long and tapering, appearing slightly annulated (c).

Sully Bachel
Reunion, Ravine à Jacques, 4 April 2010

The digestive gland appears reddish orange (a) where masked by the orange ceratal wall, but is a reddish or pinkish purple (b) in the transparent section.

Sully Bachel

Reunion, La Possession, 7 m, 21 May 2009, size 7-8 mm

A juvenile...

Christophe Cadet

Réunion, Etang salé, on the rocky coast, less 1 m, 30 November 2010,

With its spawn, on a Padina

A spawning events...

A specimen with an intense coloration of the cerata

Sully Bachel

Reunion, Ravine à Jacques, La Possession, 10 m, 15 August 2010, size : 20 mm

The digestive gland appears reddish orange (a) where masked by the orange ceratal wall, but is a reddish or pinkish purple (b) in the transparent section.

Maurice Jay

Réunion, a few years ago....

The leading edge of the foot and foot corners (a) are milky yellow

A specimen with an intense coloration of the cerata