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Description
Aegires is a genus of dorid nudibranchs in the family Aegiridae. The slugs are small and covered with blunt, stalked tubercles; Sea Slug Forum records come mainly from the tropical and subtropical Indo-West Pacific, while the genus is also known from the North Sea region. They are reported to feed on calcareous sponges.
Identification
The dorsum bears numerous blunt, pedunculate tubercles. The rhinophores emerge from cylindrical sheaths with tubercles around the rims, and the gills, sometimes a small, almost transparent ring of feathery plumes at the centre of the back, are protected by tuberculate lobes.
Species in this genus (4)
Sources (4)
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