2026 · Photo: Boaz Liebes
Coryphellina delicata
Philippines · Indo Pacific - South China Sea
- Size
- 15–20 mm
- Depth
- 8–30 m
- Native range
- Indo-West Pacific, from South Africa to Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Japan
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Description
A slender, delicate flabellinid aeolid, originally described as Flabellina delicata from Madang, Papua New Guinea, and moved to Coryphellina in 2017.
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Identification
Body deep reddish-purple, oral tentacles darker purple, rhinophores deep red with about 30 well-spaced papillae. Cylindrical cerata in horseshoe-shaped arches, with translucent white bases, golden-yellow to orange upper parts and a purple subapical ring.
Similar species
Coryphellina exoptata is stockier, with cerata in simple linear rows and many more rhinophoral papillae.
Habitat & diet
Habitat
Coral reefs, about 8–30 m.
Food
Hydroids, like other Coryphellina.