Carlson's halgerda

Halgerda carlsoni is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, shell-less marine gastropod mollusks in the family Discodorididae.

Description

This animal is one of a group of mainly white species of Halgerda with orange markings. This species can be around 5 cm in length. Its body is massive, stocky and has no skirt, that means that the mantle and the foot are one. The body is covered with tubercles of various sizes whose top is orange to red with a white rimmed at the base. The background body color is translucent white with dense punctuation of very small red-orange dots. The mantle edge is trimmed with small tubercles tipped with orange to red dots. Rhinophores and gills are retractable, translucent and speckled with dark spots.

Distribution

This species was described from New Caledonia. It has subsequently been reported from Fiji, Tonga, Sulawesi, the Philippines, Malaysia, Tanzania, Madagascar and South Africa.