Nudibranch of the Cape Peninsula and False Bay
Author : Guido Zsilavecz

Translucent white mantle and body, with white rhinophores and gills. Irregular opaque white band around mantle edge formed from ramifying epithelial mantle glands. In some specimens there is a thin submarginal yellow line around the mantle on the inside edge of the mantle glands. It apparently does not continue around in front of the rhinophores. Most specimens have a sereis of large red spots on the mantle, but in a few cases these are absent.

References:
• Gosliner, T.M. (1981) Nudibranchs of Southern Africa. Chromodoris sp 1., p.76.
• Gosliner, T.M. (1994) New species of Chromodoris and Noumea (Nudibranchia: Chromodorididae) from the western Indian Ocean and southern Africa. Proceedings of the Californian Academy of Sciences, 48(12): 239-252.

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Chromodoris heatherae Cape Town, South Africa Ron McPeak 1996

Chromodoris heatherae, Gosliner, 1994

One of five chromodoridid opisthobranchs described in the 1994 paper from the western Indian Ocean and southern Africa, this species was named to recognize Terry Gosliner’s daughter Heather, who was born in Cape Town, South Africa, where this species is common. Like the human, Heather, it is a very pretty sea goddess, only much smaller reaching about 70 mm in length.

A temperate species, it is found along Cape Province from the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula to Port Elizabeth. It is common from the intertidal to depths of 23 meters. The body is white with white gills and rhinophores. A band of numerous, crowded, opaque white glands is present along the margin of the notum. At this point the coloration of specimens can vary widely. At one extreme, some specimens have no spots, and a few had an additional submarginal yellow band along the edge of the notum. A series of blood-red spots are arranged over the surface of the notum, in most specimens. In some these spots are uniform in size and shape, arranged in a neat double row, while in others the spots are quite irregular in shape, dispersed more densely to the posterior end. Shown originally (Figure 112) in Gosliner’s Nudibranchs of South Africa, A guide to the opisthobranch molluscs of Southern Africa published in 1987 by Sea Challengers!. C. heatherae is similar in color pattern to several species found in temperate Australia (Rudman, 1983). Among these are C. splendida (Angas, 1864) and C. hunteri Rudman, 1985. Gill and notal coloration and the dentition of the radular teeth set C. heatherae apart as a distinct species. The photo taken here by " Ron Ron, the Biomass Mawn" is very typical of this lovely species, one any proud father would want to name after his lovely daughter.

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