Nudibranchs - Sunshine Coast etc. / 5607e
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29/07/2007
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3702a

Elysia bangtawaensis Swennen, 1997
Location: Drainage Creek, Cobaki Broadwater, Coolangata, New South Wales, Australia
Size: 35-48 mm
Depth: 1-120 mm
Temperature: 18 C

ORDER: SACOGLOSSA
FAMILY: Plakobranchidae

green

New Record for northern New South Wales
NOTE: This new species was found by an employee testing water while working on the Tugun Bypass. Insitu this animal resembles a leaf! It was found eating a green algae.
Photographs by Gary Cobb - Copyright 2003-2026





Animals eating green algae




Drainage Creek looking west




Animals caught above tide line still crawled!