Baeolidia australis (Rudman, 1982)

Images taken at Bare Island and Chowder Bay, NSW, Australia

The body of B. australis is large and broad with brown and white reticulate pattern. The cerata are brown with white patches. It has a thin orange sub-apical band above a broad blue band on each cerata with white apex arranged in arch formation. The oral tentacles are an orange or watery brown in colour. The rhinophores are transluscent with rhinophoral papillae (small knobs)

Baeolidia australis is a solar-powered species that feeds on sea anemones (Cricophorus nutrix)