| Godiva quadricolor | |
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| Godiva quadricolor laying eggs, Swan River, Western Australia. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Nudipleura clade Nudibranchia |
| Superfamily: | Aeolidioidea |
| Family: | Glaucidae |
| Genus: | Godiva |
| Species: | G. quadricolor |
| Binomial name | |
| Godiva quadricolor (Barnard, 1927) |
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Godiva quadricolor is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Glaucidae.
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This species occurs in the Mediterranean, off western Australia, West Africa, and the South African coast from the Cape Peninsula to East London, intertidally to 20 m.[1]
Godiva quadricolor is a slender pale-bodied nudibranch with many cerata striped in bands of blue, yellow and orange. Its head is orange with rugose orange rhinophores and has a pair of orange oral tentacles with a white central stripe.
Godiva quadricolor preys on anemones and on other nudibranchs.
Its egg ribbon is a globular mass of white zigzags.