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Many-lobed ceratosoma
Ceratosoma tenue
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 212893, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Many-lobed ceratosoma
- Scientific
- Ceratosoma tenue
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Sea slugs
- Maximum size
- Up to about 11 cm (total length)
- Depth and habitat
- Sea floor (benthic)
- IUCN status
- NE · Not EvaluatedNot Evaluated (NE)
Description
A large chromodorid nudibranch, up to about 12 cm, with bright but very variable colours, three mantle lobes along each side of the front half of the body and a dotted purple line around the mantle and foot. It feeds on sponges on reefs.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: museum specimens (n=1); iNaturalist research-grade observations in the Maldives (n=4, 3 observers).
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Ceratosoma-tenue.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=212893
- inaturalist.org /taxa/120937
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Ceratosoma_tenue.jpg
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.