Caloria indica

Caloria indica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Aeolidacea
Family: Facelinidae
Genus: Caloria
Species:
C. indica
Binomial name
Caloria indica
(Bergh, 1896)
Synonyms
  • Aeolidia dangeri Risbec, J., 1928
  • Learchis indica Bergh 1896
  • Phidiana indica (Bergh, 1896)

Caloria indica is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Facelinidae.

Description

The size of the body varies between 25 mm and 50 mm. Its body is covered in cerata, which it can detach to distract or harm a predator.

Distribution

This species was described from Ambon Island, Indonesia. It occurs in the Indo-West Pacific from East Africa to Hawaii; also as an invasive species in the Israeli part of the Mediterranean Sea, first recorded in the late 1980s and then again in 2016.

References

  1. 1 2 Bergh L. S. R. (1896). "Eolidiens d'Amboine. Voyage de MM. M. Bedot et C. Pictet dans l'Archipel Malais". Revue Suisse de Zoologie 4: 385-394, Plate 16.
  2. 1 2 Gofas, S. (2005). Caloria indica (Bergh, 1896). In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-12-21.
  3. ↑ "Caloria indica". critterrepublic.com. 2024-10-29. Retrieved 2025-08-24.
  4. ↑ Rudman, W.B., 1999 (March 4) Phidiana indica (Bergh, 1896). [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
  5. ↑ Gat G., (1993). Flabellina rubrolineata (O'Donoghue) and Phidiana indica (Bergh) (Nudibranchia: Aeolidioidea), two new Lessepsian immigrants in the Eastern Mediterranean; Journal of Molluscan Studies 59(1): 120
  6. ↑ Zenetos A., Gofas S., Russo G. & Templado J., (2004). CIESM Atlas of exotic species in the Mediterranean. 3. Molluscs (F. Briand, ed.) CIESM Publishers, Monaco 376 p
  7. ↑ Shevy B-S Rothman; Henk K. Mienis; Bella S. Galil (2017). "Alien facelinid nudibranchs in the Eastern Mediterranean: first report of Phidiana militaris (Alder and Hancock, 1864) and report of Caloria indica (Bergh, 1896) 30 years after its previous sighting". BioInvasions Records. 6 (2): 125–128. doi:10.3391/bir.2017.6.2.06.