Sea Butterfly

Cavolinioidea

Description:

The superfamily Cavolinioidea is the most speciose group of sea butterflies. Sea butterflies (thecosomata) are pelagic marine gastropods, so called because they swim by flapping their wing-like parapodia. Quite small, less than 1 cm in body size with 2 long tentacles.

Habitat:

Pelagic/oceanic

Species ID Suggestions

6 Comments

AlbertKang 9 years ago

Thanks, @armadeus.4 :)

armadeus.4 9 years ago

Beautiful photo Albert and what a wonderful spotting! Thank you for sharing :)

AlbertKang 9 years ago

Yes, they are nice especially when they are fluttering around.
Since they are relatively small and body is translucent, its usually very hard to get good pictures of them :(

Machi 9 years ago

Beautiful photo and animal! Glad to help

AlbertKang 9 years ago

Thanks, @Machi, yea, looks like its Cavolina specie, Sea Butterfly.
Will update the info :)

Machi 9 years ago

I think this is a Cavolinia species. It looks similar to http://earthfirstnews.files.wordpress.co.... I think this genus is not as well researched or discovered as others, so ID may be difficult.