Aplysia sydneyensis

Aplysia sydneyensis is a species of gastropod mollusc in the genus Aplysia, family Aplysiidae.

Description

(Original description) The shell is compressed and elongate-perpendicular in form; coloration is chestnut at the median region, becoming pale horn-colored toward the margins. The apex is obtuse, terminal, slightly reflected and incurved. The dorsal margin is convex; the upper margin is straight; the outer lip is straight; the lower margin is subquadrate.

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia.

References

• Bebbington, A., 1977. Aplysiid species from eastern Australia with notes on the Pacific Ocean Aplysiomorpha (Gastropoda, Opistobranchia). Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. 34 1: 87-147.
• Edgar, G.J. 1997. Australian Marine Life, the plants and animals of temperate waters. Kew, Victoria, Australia : Reed Books 544 pp.

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