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Chelidonura
Chelidonura is a genus of small, sometimes colorful, sea slugs. These are headshield slugs or cephalaspideans, marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Aglajidae.
17 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Swallowtail Headshield Slug
speciesChelidonura hirundinina

Lovely Headshield Slug
speciesChelidonura amoena

Blue Velvet Headshield Slug
speciesChelidonura varians

Chelidonura electra
speciesChelidonura electra

Spotted Swallowtail Slug
speciesChelidonura alisonae

Blue-spotted Shield Slug
speciesChelidonura livida

Chelidonura pallida
speciesChelidonura pallida

Chelidonura punctata
speciesChelidonura punctata

Chelidonura cubana
speciesChelidonura cubana

Yellow Lip Shield Slug
speciesChelidonura flavolobata

Chelidonura castanea
speciesChelidonura castanea

Chelidonura elegans
speciesChelidonura elegans
Chelidonura obscura
speciesChelidonura obscura
Chelidonura orchidaea
speciesChelidonura orchidaea
Chelidonura perparva
speciesChelidonura perparva
Chelidonura plebeia
speciesChelidonura plebeia
Chelidonura sanguinea
speciesChelidonura sanguinea
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 54576.