Ellen’s Trapania

Ellen's Trapania

Ellen's Trapania
Name: Ellen’s Trapania
Scientific Name: Trapania bonellenae
Family: Dorid Nudibranchs
Taxonomic: Goniodorididae
ID Group: Nudibranchs, Sea Slugs, Sea Hares
Size: up to 1 in.
Depth Range: On the reef (10 – 60 ft.)
Sightings: Seen very rarely

This Nudibranch has a dark gray to brown body with a network of thin white lines. It has white patches near its prominent gill plume and rear-curved appendages next to its rhinophores.