| Frilled nudibranch Leminda millecra |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Family: | Charcotiidae |
| Genus: | Leminda |
| Species: | L. millecra |
| Binomial name | |
| Leminda millecra Griffiths, 1985 |
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The frilled nudibranch, Leminda millecra, is a species of arminid nudibranch, and is only found in South Africa. It is a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Lemindidae.
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This species is endemic to the South African coast and is found from the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula to Port Elizabeth in 10-40 m. Deep water specimens have been trawled off the KwaZulu-Natal coast[1].
The frilled nudibranch is a large (up to 90 mm) smooth-bodied nudibranch with a frilled appearance. Margins of the body have a bright bluish edge, and the body may have pink or brown pigmentation. The rhinophores are elongated and smooth, and emerge from a scrolled sheath[2].
The food of the frilled nudibranch is unknown. Its egg mass consists of fat white convoluted curls with large eggs distinctly visible.