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Description
Samla is a genus of aeolid nudibranchs in the family Samlidae, a family established in 2017 through a taxonomic revision. It includes S. bicolor, reported as widely distributed in the Indo-Pacific, and S. takashigei from the Pacific coast of Honshu, Japan. The sources consulted do not state the diet of the genus.
Identification
A narrow body, with cerata arranged in rows on raised ridges along the back, and long oral tentacles. In S. bicolor the body is translucent, with white tips on the oral tentacles and an orange band near the tip of the rhinophores and on each ceras. In S. takashigei the rhinophores are short and annulated.
Species in this genus (3)
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