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Trapania cf. aurata is characterized by its uniformly white body. The extra-rhinophoral appendages and the extra-branchial appendages are white with an orange longitudinal band near the apices. The oral tentacles have a translucent whitish base but are primarily orange, the gills and the rhinophores are uniformly white. Very similar are: Trapania aurata, which differs by the orange edging on the dorsal side of the gills, by orange at the tip and down the dorsal surface of the rhinophores, and by an orange middorsal line at the posterior end of the foot, and Trapania vitta, which lacks the orange longitudinal band at the dorso-lateral processes, and differs by the orange edging on the dorsal side of the gills, by orange at the tip and down the dorsal surface of the rhinophores, and by an orange middorsal line at the posterior end of the foot. More informations on Trapania aurata are at Bill Rudman's Sea-Slug Forum! |
