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2 unusual facts about List of marine heterobranch gastropods of South Africa


Lophopleurella capensis

The type locality for this species is South Africa.

Siphonaria compressa

It is endemic to South Africa.


Fireworks nudibranch

This species has to date only been found off South Africa, near Vulcan Rock, south of Hout Bay, off Cape Town in at least 18m of water.

Scribbled nudibranch

Around the southern African coast it is found from the Atlantic side of the Cape Peninsula to Sodwana Bay, from the intertidal to at least 30 m.

Soft coral nudibranch

This species has so far been found only off South Africa, from False Bay to Port Elizabeth, intertidally to 14 m.

Tasselled nudibranch

It is also found off the South African coast, where it occurs from Hout Bay on the Cape Peninsula to the Wild Coast.


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