Caloria indica

Caloria indica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia; clade Euthyneura; clade Nudipleura; clade Nudibranchia; clade Dexiarchia; clade Cladobranchia; clade Aeolidida
Superfamily:	Aeolidioidea
Family:	Facelinidae
Genus:	Caloria
Species:	C. indica
Binomial name
	Caloria indica; (Bergh, 1896)
Synonyms
	Aeolidia dangeri Risbec, J., 1928; Learchis indica Bergh 1896; Phidiana indica (Bergh, 1896);

Caloria indica is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Facelinidae.^[2]^[3]

Description

The size of the body varies between 25 mm and 50 mm.

This marine species occurs in the Indo-West Pacific; also as an invasive species in the Israeli part of the Mediterranean Sea.

^ ^a ^b Bergh L. S. R. (1896). "Eolidiens d'Amboine. Voyage de MM. M. Bedot et C. Pictet dans l'Archipel Malais". Revue Suisse de Zoologie 4: 385-394, Plate 16.
^ ^a ^b Gofas, S. (2009). Caloria indica (Bergh, 1896). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2009) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=181240 on 2010-05-18
^ "Caloria indica". CLEMAM. accessed 19 May 2010.

Gat G., 1993: Flabellina rubrolineata (O'Donoghue) and Phidiana indica (Bergh) (Nudibranchia: Aeolidioidea), two new Lessepsian immigrants in the Eastern Mediterranean; Journal of Molluscan Studies 59(1): 120
Zenetos A., Gofas S., Russo G. & Templado J., 2004: CIESM Atlas of exotic species in the Mediterranean. 3. Molluscs (F. Briand, ed.) CIESM Publishers, Monaco 376 p

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