Indian Caloria (Caloria indica) — Habitat, Photos

Q: Where can you find Indian Caloria?

Indian Caloria can be found in: Japan, Vanuatu, Thailand, Papua New Guinea, Maldives, USA West, Solomon Islands, Oman, Indonesia, Micronesia, Hong Kong, Philippines, Taiwan, Marshall Islands, India, Australia, Israel, Comoros, New Caledonia, Malaysia, Palau, United Arab Emirates, USA, Fiji, South Africa, Hawaii.

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.

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