Gardiner's Banana Nudibranch

Notodoris gardineri

Nudibranchs
IUCN: Not evaluated

Usual depth3–21 m
Water temperature19–30 °C
Best monthsAugust, November, and December
How commonRare

About this species

Notodoris gardineri is a sea slug, which is a species of nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Aegiridae.

Text from the Wikipedia article “Notodoris gardineri”, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the article

Where and when

Where it has been recorded

Worldwide

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Best months

Worldwide (open data)

January: 10 records
February: 3 records
March: 7 records
April: 11 records
May: 11 records
June: 12 records
July: 12 records
August: 20 records
September: 15 records
October: 14 records
November: 16 records
December: 21 records

Depth and water temperature

Depth

Mostly recorded at 3–21 m · Deepest record: 40 m

0–10 m: 16 records
10–20 m: 10 records
20–30 m: 1 records
30–40 m: 1 records
40–50 m: 1 records

Water temperature

Recorded in surface water of 19–30 °C

18–20 °C: 3 records
20–22 °C: 3 records
22–24 °C: 4 records
24–26 °C: 61 records
26–28 °C: 27 records
28–30 °C: 55 records

Names and classification

English: Gardiner's Banana Nudibranch

Names in 1 more languages

Japanese: フイリレモンウミウシ

Other scientific names: Aegires gardineri, Notodoris megastigma

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Sources and credits

Names and taxonomy: WoRMS (CC BY 4.0) and the GBIF Backbone (CC BY 4.0). Photos: iNaturalist observers, each under the licence shown (CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA).

Depth, temperature, months and maps: records from OBIS and GBIF under CC0 or CC BY.
Descriptions: Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA, each linked to its article.
Conservation status as published by GBIF (IUCN Red List).
253 open-data records from 1906 to 2025.

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