Swallowtail Headshield Slug - Chelidonura hirundinina

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Ferdy Christant

Lion

Gorgeous!
Note: at eol.org they use the common name "Leech Aglaja". Posted 8 years ago
1. Albert Kang
  
  Lion
  
  Interesting, first time I came across the common name of Leech Aglaja, however I think its given by photographers at their whims and fancy and referring to their likeness to Leech and associating it to the Family of Aglajidae. So, the name Leech Aglaja is a generic name referring to 'all of them' from the family of Aglajidae?
  
  I usually look up The Sea Slug Forum or Nudibranch & SeaSlug Identification (NSSI) for verification and there's very little mention of Leech Aglaja. Both forums uses the term Headshield Slug to refers to this category/type of Sea Slugs. Posted 8 years ago, modified 8 years ago
2. 1. Ferdy Christant
    
    Lion
    
    Here you can see how they arrived at that common name:
    http://eol.org/pages/453859/names/common_names
    
    Looks like it comes from "uBio", don't know that source. Posted 8 years ago
  2. 1. Albert Kang
      
      Lion
      
      Thanks for the link :) Posted 8 years ago

The Leech Aglaja

''Chelidonura hirundinina'' is a species of small and colorful aglajid sea slug, a shell-less opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Aglajidae.

The variety ''Chelidonura hirundinina'' var. ''punctata'' Eliot, 1903 has been elevated to the species ''Chelidonura punctata'' Eliot, 1903. Despite its colorful appearance, this is not a species of nudibranch; it is a cephalaspidean, a headshield slug. This is a tropical species which lives in the western Indo-Pacific, and also in the.. more

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Similar species: Headshield Slugs

Species identified by Albert Kang