Chelidonura varians (Blue velvet headshield slug)
Black with blue lines on the margins of the body, the tail and on the hair, long tapering twin tail parts of unequal length (the left is longer). Often confused with a somewhat similar headshield slug Philinopsis gardineri.
Unevaluated by the IUCN Red list, but quite common on tropical reefs in the West Pacific, the Solomon islands and Fiji.
Indo-West Pacific to the Solomon islands and Fiji. It lives on shallow sandy bottoms of reefs, lagoons and bays in a depth range of 1-30 meters.
Sexual reproduction. They produce a grey mucus sheet containing eggs.
Up to 7cm.
It feeds on flatworms and is actually being used to get rid of flatworm pests in the aquaria trade.
Often confused with a somewhat similar headshield slug Philinopsis gardener, but Chelidonura can be easily recognized by the long pointed posterior that Philinopsis lacks.
