Bulbaeolidia alba
Bulbaeolidia alba (Risbec, 1928)
Images taken at the Mooloolah River, Sunshine Coast, QLD and Chowder Bay, NSW Australia.
The body is flattened and wide, translucent in colour with white dappled pigment. The cerata are mottled white similar to the body and arranged in an arch formation with white apex. The rhinophores have prominent swellings midway and towards the tips. They are translucent in colour with sparse white pigment towards the apex. Often, there is also a narrow red line surrounding the bases of the rhinophores.
When crawling, it jerks its posterior cerata rhythmically