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Orange-Lindes Nudibranch
Israel · Mediterranean
A small, slender, brightly coloured facelinid aeolid that eats hydroids. First recorded in the Mediterranean in 2016 on the Scirè wreck in Haifa Bay (as Phidiana militaris); now seen regularly in winter and spring along the Israeli coast.
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Pale flesh-coloured to white body with a long tapered tail. A bright orange line along the head that forks at the front. Smooth rhinophores with a scarlet band and yellow tips; reddish-brown cerata with yellowish, white-tipped ends.
Caloria indica has a white line between the rhinophores, ringed rhinophores and a translucent orange body.
Kurkar reefs and wrecks, ~6–30 m; mainly winter–spring.
Hydroids (Pennaria disticha, Ectopleura, Calyptospadix); in the lab also jellyfish polyps.
