Spurilla braziliana (MacFarland, 1909)

Images taken at Bare Island and Chowder Bay, NSW and Mooloolah River, Sunshine Coast, QLD, Australia

The body is long and broad and colour varies between orange and red with opaque white spots on the head, notum and cerata. The cerata are elongate with white curved apices. The rhinophores are orange or red and perfoliate. They are an Intertidal species, using a mucous layer to protect themselves from dehydration and hide under rocks when the tide is low.

They have the ability to extract nematocysts (stinging cells) and store them in cnidosacs at the tips of the cerata to use for defence against predators.