02 Cuthona nana

02 Cuthona nana

Full grown adult with numerous cerata arranged in crowded rows on each side of the body leaving most of the notum exposed. Cerata extend in front of rhinophores. Yellowish-brown digestive gland is visible within the cerata.
Translucent body reveals, in the anterior half, white reproductive and digestive organs and internal black eyes on the circum-oesophageal nerve ring to the rear of the rhinophores and, in the posterior half, pink spheroid ovotestes. There are no opaque surface markings.
Cornwall, England, May 2015, © D.Fenwick.