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Indian caloria
Solomon Islands · Pacific Ocen - Solomon Sea
A slender, colourful facelinid aeolid that feeds on hydroids on shallow reefs, rock pools and wrecks.
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Slender, translucent white to orange body with a long pointed tail and long oral tentacles. Orange-red head with white streaks. Cerata in 5–6 groups, banded red, orange, blue, yellow and white.
Caloria militaris has an orange-red (not white) line between the rhinophores and smooth rhinophores with a scarlet band.
Hard substrates: shallow reefs, rock pools and man-made structures (wrecks, buoys, pipes), to ~26 m.
Hydroids (Pennaria, Eudendrium, Salacia).
