Orange-tipped Bluntnose
Samla macassarana
- Usual depth27–55 m
- Water temperature25–29 °C
- Best monthsMarch, June, and July
- How commonRare
About this species
Samla macassarana is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine heterobranch mollusc in the family Samlidae.
Text from the Wikipedia article “Samla macassarana”, 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: 0 records
- February: 0 records
- March: 3 records
- April: 0 records
- May: 1 records
- June: 2 records
- July: 2 records
- August: 1 records
- September: 0 records
- October: 0 records
- November: 2 records
- December: 0 records
Depth and water temperature
Depth
Mostly recorded at 27–55 m · Deepest record: 54.9 m
Water temperature
Recorded in surface water of 25–29 °C
Names and classification
- English
- Orange-tipped Bluntnose, Orange-tipped Flabellina
Other scientific names: Flabellina macassarana
Similar species
Two-tone BluntnoseSamla bicolor
Red-ringed BluntnoseSamla bilas
Purple-ringed BluntnoseSamla riwo
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).
- 12 open-data records from 1994 to 2012.
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