Intertidal Invertebrates of the Monterey Bay Area, California
Compiled & photographed by Gary McDonald, Long Marine Laboratory, University of California, Santa Cruz
Asilomar, Monterey Co., CA; 27 Apr 2009; 9mm total length.
Description: Ground color translucent greyish-white, with a somewhat triangular opaque white patch between rhinophores and oral tentacles. Cerata with a broad band of encrusting white from base to tip of each ceras, cores brown (burnt sienna to deep burnt umber). Rhinophores smooth, distal two thirds red-orange, with white tips. Oral tentacles red-orange with white tips and bases. Anterior foot corners rounded. Occasional specimens may be quite pale.
Size: To about 10mm or more in length.
Notes: Feeds on several species of hydroids such as Tubularia spp., Obelia spp., & Syncoryne eximia.
Carmel Pt., Monterey Co., CA; 25 May 2009; 9mm total length.
Carmel Pt., Monterey Co., CA; 25 May 2009; 9mm total length.
Skipper's Docks, Elkhorn Slough, Monterey Co., CA; 1 Nov 1972; 14mm total length.
Great Tidepool, Pacific Grove, Monterey Co., CA; 26 May 2009; 7mm total length.
Great Tidepool, Monterey, Monterey Co., CA; 22 Jun 1986.
Monterey Harbor Docks, Monterey Co., CA; 13 Dec 2008; ~5mm total length.
Asilomar, Monterey Co., CA; 15 May 1972; 8mm total length.
Asilomar, Monterey Co., CA; 12 Jun 1972; 7mm total length.